summary
What is a summary used for?
a summary is meant to inform your reader who has not read the text or seen the presentation of what the text is about.
What is an author’s perspective?
How the author feels about the subject.
What is a central/main idea.
What the text is mainly about.
What is an authors tone?
The authors attitude toward the topic.
What is a context clue.
Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage to help the reader understand.
Summarizing helps you focus on the most ________ points of the story or article. A. Useless B. Different C. Important
C. Important
What are three ways an author presents their perspective?
1st person 2nd person 3rd person
When summarizing a story or article you are telling what the central/main idea is? True or False
True
What’s the tone of this sentence?
My birthday is next week, I can’t wait.
A. Angry B. Excited C. Calm
B. Excited
I can see that kid from a mile away his shirt is very VIVID.
what does vivid mean?
Very bright.
When you summarize an article or story you should _____ unnecessary details. A. Talk about B. Eliminate C. Highlight
B. eliminate
In _____ person perspective the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view. A. Second B. Third C. First
C. First
What’s the tone of this sentence?
I was outside and I heard something in the bushes.
A. nervous B. Happy C. Sad
A. Nervous
The cars on the road were driving RAPIDLY we couldn’t keep up.
what does rapidly mean.
Very fast