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Learning Objective : W riting Summaries. What will we learn today?. How to write summaries. Partner Share. Read this passage and restate to your partner what this paragraph is about.
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What will we learn today? How to write summaries
Partner Share Read this passage and restate to your partner what this paragraph is about Chimps live in groups and like each other a lot, but sometimes they fight. Because they don’t want to be angry at each other after they had a fight, they make up by holding a hand out to the other and kissing. They show they are sorry with pats and hugs. Then the anger goes away.
Summary Writing • Summary is paraphrasing something you read. Example: Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem. • What is a summary?
Why is it important? If know how to write a summary it shows that you understand what you read.
Steps for Writing a Summary Go to text Go to flow Go to flow Go to flee Go to flee Go to flee Read the passage Reread the passage and place summarized main ideas inside a flow map Circle main ideas that are related Transfer main ideas to flee map and make introduction Write supporting details and transitions Write conclusion
Step 1- Read The Japanese Art of Bonsai
Go to steps Flow Map
Go back to steps Go to Flow