Writing%20a%20Summary

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Writing a Summary
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Start your summary with a summarizing statement

• What can help you to make a summarizing
  statement-
• I V FT A summarizing statement

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I

• Introduce
• Answer these questions-
• What is the title?
• What format is it written in (article, book,
  poem, etc)
• Who is the author?
• For example,
• The Wall, a picture book, by Eve Bunting.

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V

• Verb
• Use a verb (action word)
• Some to consider-
• Describes Explains Shows Tells Convinces
• For example-
• The Wall, a picture book, by Eve Bunting
  describes a.

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FT

• Finishing thought
• The main thing that happens in the story (the
  gist).
• For example,
• The Wall, a picture book, by Eve Bunting
  describes a boy and his fathers visit to the
  Vietnam Wall where many come for a variety of
  reasons.

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Figuring out the main events
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MAIN EVENTS
You know it is a main event when.. If you took
it out the whole story would change The wall is
black and shiny vs. locating the grandfathers
name on the wall
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Summary Scoring Guide

• 2 includes a summary statement and 3 main events
  from the selection.
• 1 includes a summary statement AND 1 or 2 main
  events from the selection
• OR
• 3 main events, but no summary statement
• 0 1 or 2 main events and no summarizing
  statement or only minor events

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Putting it all together

• Begin with the summarizing statement-
• The Wall, a picture book, by Eve Bunting
  describes a boy and his fathers visit to the
  Vietnam Wall. .
• Then add the three main events. Link them with
  transitions-
• First, when the boy and father arrive at the
  wall they begin searching it for the name of the
  boys grandfather who died in the Vietnam War. As
  they are searching, the boy notices other people
  looking for names on the wall. Many of them
  appear sad. Eventually, the boys dad locates the
  grandfathers name and he makes a rubbing of it.
  Finally, the boy leaves a picture of himself at
  the wall.

Second Event
First Event
Fourth Event
Third Event
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Full summary without notes

• The Wall, a picture book, by Eve Bunting
  describes a boy and his fathers visit to the
  Vietnam Wall. First, when the boy and father
  arrive at the wall they begin searching it for
  the name of the boys grandfather who died in the
  Vietnam War. As they are searching, the boy
  notices other people looking for names on the
  wall. Many of them appear sad. Eventually, the
  boys dad locates the grandfathers name and he
  makes a rubbing of it. Finally, the boy leaves a
  picture of himself at the wall.

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Summary Scoring Guide

• 2 includes a summary statement and 3 main events
  from the selection.
• 1 includes a summary statement AND 1 or 2 main
  events from the selection
• OR
• 3 main events, but no summary statement
• 0 1 or 2 main events and no summarizing
  statement or only minor events

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Sample One

• In The Wall by Eve Bunting, a boy and his father
  visit the Vietnam Wall. They locate and make a
  rubbing of the boys grandfathers name who died
  a long time ago in a war. Next, the boy notices
  all the other people visiting the wall.

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Sample Two

• The Wall a picture book by Eve Bunting, explains
  how a father and his son visit the Vietnam Wall.
  First, the boy and his father are looking for the
  grandfathers name on the wall. Finally, they
  find it and the father is so happy that he makes
  a rubbing of his fathers name.

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Sample Three

• The Wall, a picture book, by Eve Bunting,
  describes a man and his sons visit to find his
  fathers name on the Vietnam Wall. At first, the
  name of the mans father is difficult to locate,
  but once the boy and man find it they make a
  rubbing of the name. While there, the boy notices
  the many other people who are visiting the wall.
  He notes that many of them appear sad. Before the
  man and boy decide to leave the wall, they leave
  a picture of the boy. Though the boy wishes his
  grandfather was alive he is proud that his
  grandfathers name is on the wall.

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Sample 4

• A boy and his father visit the wall. They see
  many names of people who died in the war. They
  look for the boys grandfathers name on the wall
  and they eventually find it. They make a rubbing
  of it and the dad puts it in his wallet. Many
  people who visit the wall are sad. At the end of
  the story, the boy leaves a picture of himself at
  the wall.

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Sample Five

• This story is about a boy and his father going
  to a wall. The wall is shiny and black. The boy
  and father can see themselves in the wall. A man
  in a wheelchair says hi to the boy. Little
  girls also visit the wall. Their teacher is with
  them. When the girls leave it is quiet at the
  wall. Finally, the boy and father leave the wall
  to go home.

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You Do

• On your own, read the selection and write a
  summary that includes a summarizing statement and
  three main events