True or False: Knowing or including the central idea of the text in your summary can help you write a strong summary.
True
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When reading a text, what is one strategy you can use to find the central idea OR important details?
Highlighting/annotating, reading the whole text, finding the main idea of each paragraph, looking for key words
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What is an unimportant detail?
A detail that does not support the central idea directly, should not be included in a summary
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What is the central idea of a text?
What the text is mostly about
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State a summary for this paragraph: In the attic, Alex and Grandma discovered an old key. Curious about where it might lead, they found a chest that the key unlocked. Inside the chest was an exciting treasure map.
Alex and Grandma found a key in the attic that unlocked a treasure map
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Why do we write summaries?
To retell a text/story, to understand the most important events of a story, to understand the central idea
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True or False: A summary should be exact words from the text.
False
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What is something that should NOT be included in a summary?
Your opinion, words directly from the text, unimportant details
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When writing a summary, especially for a fiction text, you should retell the events in the correct order that they happen. True or false?
True
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What kind of details should be included in a summary?
The most important details, relevant details
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True or False: In order to write a strong summary, you should read the whole text first
True
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Which detail is important to include in a summary of this paragraph? :
They were arguing over the remote, They decided to take turns, they got to watch what they wanted for 15 minutes
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seesaw
Swap points!
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rocket
Go to first place!
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fairy
Take points!
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thief
Give points!
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banana
Go to last place!
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seesaw
Swap points!
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fairy
Take points!
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lifesaver
Give 5 points!
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What should we use to show or support the central idea of a text?