Summary, Main Idea, Theme

a brief recollection or account of the main points of a piece of writing, action or event

• summary

• main idea

• theme

There are only two ways to summarize a story.

• True

• False

The two ways we learned to summarize a story are GIST Summary and SWBST

• True

• False

The first step in a GIST Summary is to put your answers from the 5Ws into a 10-20 word summary.

• True

• False

The first "S" is SWBST stands for

The "W" in SWBST stands for

The "B" in SWBST stands for

The second "S" in SWBST stands for

The "T" in SWBST stands for

tells us what the story is mostly about

• summary

• main idea

• theme