Main Idea
What a story or passage is mostly about
What is summarizing?
Taking the most important details from the story and putting it into your own words in a few sentences.
What is theme?
The message of the story or the message the author wants us to learn
What should be the first sentence of your writing?
Topic sentence- introducing your writing.
How do you find the main idea?
Reading the story and locating the most important details or events
Somebody (characters, people involved in the story)
Do all stories state the theme?
No
How many details should you have?
3-4
Your mom is making you a peanut butter sandwich, she took out the bread, the peanut butter, and the jelly. She spread peanut butter out on the bread and spread some of the jam on top. She then gave it to you. What is the main idea?
How to make a PBJ sandwich.
When we refer to the W- Wanted in a summary what does that mean?
What the character or characters wanted to do or achieve
Can a story have more than one theme?
When you take the words from the author's text you need to include what?
You're going to the pond to go fishing with your friends. You get a few bass and crappie. What is the main idea of this text?
Fishing
What should a summary NOT include.
your opinion
Determine the theme. She sobbed for hours trying to think of a way out of having to tell her mother she wrecked her new car. After thinking about it for some time, she called her mother and told her what happened.
Honesty is the best answer.
Concluding sentence- wraps up your writing.
You go to school, you go to your homeroom and do your work, you then go to math, after that you go to gym. You do exercises first, then you do basketball, then its a vote, kickball or dodge-ball. The class likes both of them. You walk over to the vote for dodge-ball. So do your friends, it was a tie, a kid from the bathroom got back and picked dodge-ball. It was so fun that day. What is the main idea?
Your school day and gym
What do summaries usually end with.
the ending or the solution of the story.
Determine the theme. My best friend was being mean to another kid. I didn't know what to do. Finally I decided to tell them to stop and leave the other kid alone.
Stick up or defend others.
What does every sentence need? (4 things)
Subject, Predicate, Punctuation, and capitalization.