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Marvelous Monday. September 17, 2011 Begin with SSR (sustained, silent, reading). Summarizing, paraphrasing and retelling. How are they related?. Retelling. Begin with this in Kindergarten T elling again Orally retelling what is remembered from the text. Paraphrasing.
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Marvelous Monday September 17, 2011 Begin with SSR (sustained, silent, reading)
Summarizing, paraphrasing and retelling • How are they related?
Retelling Begin with this in Kindergarten Telling again Orally retelling what is remembered from the text
Paraphrasing • Put it in your own words • Restate ideas from a text in a new way.
Summarize 1. A summary should be shorter than the original text. • How much shorter? • It depends on the purpose and audience.
Summary 2. It should include the main ideas of the text. • Sometimes these are explicitly stated. This makes it easy. • Sometimes they are implicit.
Summary • It should reflect the structure and order of the original text. • Fiction, written in chronological order, is easiest to summarize. • Authors use a variety of structures when writing nonfiction. (compare-and-contrast, main point, then supporting detail, problem-solution, etc.)
Summary • It should include important details. • Those are the details that support the author’s main points. • Important details are not simply those you found interesting.
What does a good summary look like?1. Includes important ideas2. Trivia deleted3. Ideas stated once.4. Lists collapsed5. Topic sentence included6. Synthesis includes author’s viewpoint in a nonfiction text. 7. Synthesis includes the theme in a fiction text.