Summarize

1. Summarize

2. Summarizing is telling the important events or ideas in a story in your own words.

3. A summary of a story is much shorter than the story.

4. A good summary gives only the most important events or ideas in a story.

5. A good summary does not give your ideas or opinions.

6. To summarize a story, you need to include to include the narrative elements.

7. You should include the setting, the main characters, the problem and the resolution.

8. Important details that take you from the problem to the resolution should be included in the summary.

9. You can use a story map to write a summary.