Summary

Which questions can help determine the main idea? Select 2.

• What is the author's opinion of the topic?

• What is the text about?

• What is the author's background?

• What ideas in the text are most important?

What is the definition of a main idea?

• The details that support what the text is about.

• The reader's opinion on a text.

• The central idea of a text.

What are supporting details?

• Details that are fun and exciting to the reader.

• Details that are the shortest and easiest to find.

• Details that the reader finds the most interesting.

• Details that demonstrate the main idea of the text.

Which two belong in the introductory phrase?

• title of the text

• supporting detail

• outside knowledge

• author's name

What goes before the supporting details in a summary paragraph?

• conclusion sentence

• transition word or phrase

• opinion sentence

• descriptive phrase

What does an objective summary of a text mean?

• The summary represents the writer's feelings.

• The summary represents facts not feelings.

• The summary represents outside knowledge.

• The summary represents strong opinions.

What is the definition of analyze?

• the objective main idea of a text

• representing facts not based on feelings

• examine for purposes of explanation

Which two do not belong in a summary paragraph?

• outside knowledge

• main idea

• transition words

• opinion

• introductory phrase