Summarizing Informational Text Review

What is a central idea?

• the most important point (or points) in a passage

• facts, examples, reasons, and other pieces of information in a text

• a brief restatement of the text's most important details and main ideas

• the beginning paragraph in an essay.

Facts, examples, reasons, and other pieces of information that are meant to explain and expand on the central idea are all called what?

What questions do we ask ourselves when we're trying to find the supporting details in a passage?

• who is it about?

• what are they doing?

• how does it impact the people and environment around them?

• all of the above

A summary should be subjective, or including opinions and personal beliefs

• True

• False

What is the correct order?

• details, central idea, summary

• central idea, summary, details

• details, summary, central idea

• summary, details, central idea

Which is NOT a characteristic of a summary?

• written in your own words

• restates the article's important details and central ideas

• subjective

• objective