Nonfiction Summaries

When Summarizing a text the first piece of evidence you look at is

• The table of contents

• The author

• The title

• The key words

Which of the following is true about SUMMARIZING?

• A summary should include many story details.

• A summary is always found in the first sentence of a paragraph or chapter.

• A summary should always be fiction.

• A summary is what the passage is mostly about.

Which best describes what a summary is?

• The Central/Main Idea or most important idea of the text

• A really long detailed piece of writing

• A dumb thing teachers make you write

• The entire text in your own words

A key detail is...

• A life lesson that the author is trying to communicate to us.
• An important point in the text that can help us find the main idea
• Reveals the main characters in the story.
• Is the main point the author is trying to make about the topic.

The Central/Main idea is...

• The order in which events happen in a story.

• A series of important details identified in a nonfiction text.

• The big idea or life lesson that the author wants us to take away from a fictional story.

• A brief statement that you create which shows/reflects what a nonfiction text is mainly talking about.

The first and last sentences in a text can help you find the Central/Main Idea.

• True

• False

The Headings in a text can help you find the Central/Main Idea.

• Falso

• True

A good summary is as _____________ as possible.

• complicated

• short

• long

• colorful

A good summary includes only __________ details.

• The most important details

• Key Words

• The first sentence

• A photograph

A good summary is short and includes only the most important details.

• True

• False

• Sometimes