How? What?
A summary should be shorter than the text.
How long (or short) does a summary have to be?
Re-wording someone else's words into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
The author's message(s) about the text that they want the reader notice.
What are the main ideas?
How to remove a bat from your house.
What is the main idea of the text? (What is it about?)
Piper is about a baby bird that learns how to feed himself and become independent.
What is the main idea of "Piper"?
The summary should include the main ideas from the text.
What should a summary include?
To do something carefully.
What is caution?
True or False: The summary will be longer than the original text.
What is false?
Finding the location of objects by using sound waves.
What is echolocation?
Bao is about a mother's love, and a mother dealing with their child growing up and moving on in life.
What is the main idea of "Bao"?
A summary will not include your personal opinion or quotes from the text.
What does a summary NOT include?
A shorter statement that highlights on the main ideas and key details of the text.
What is a summary?
A worksheet that helps chunk the main ideas into pieces to bring attention to the key details.
What is graphic organizer?
Use a butterfly net, place a container over the bat, or open all of the doors and windows in your house.
What are some ways to remove a bat from your house?
Presto is about a magician named Presto, who is trying to perform a show, but his rabbit would not cooperate with him until he gets his carrot.
What is the main idea of "Presto"?
Identify the main ideas, main characters, and key events in the text. Then, condense these details into a shorter statement than the original text.
How do you write a summary?
A particular order in which events are arranged.
What is sequence?
The summary should be in sequencing order of events from the text.
How should the summary be organized?
Because bats have fragile bones.
Why must we use caution when removing a bat?
In "Bao", first the baby was symbolized as a dumpling, then the dumpling grew into a rebellious teenager, got engaged, and then was shown as a grown human man in the end along with his wife.
What is the sequence of events in "Bao"?
A summary should be written in your own words.
How should a summary be worded (written)?
A personal view, perspective, or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
What is an opinion?
What type of sentence should the summary start with to get the reader's attention?
What is a simple sentence?
A species of animal which it is forbidden by law to harm or destroy, such as bats.
What is a protected species?
In "Presto", the rabbit should have gotten his carrot before the magic show.
What is an opinion of "Presto"?