Summarizing StrategyCallie Buchanan

Jenniffer Stream Megan House

Jazmine Newsome

What is summarizing?• Summarizing is when larger

selections of text are reduced to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, and the main points that are worth noting and remembering.

• Webster's calls a summary the "general idea in brief form"; it is the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions.

What is summarizing?• Summarizing is a

metacognotive means of monitoring, through which students can evaluate their understanding of a passage that they have just read.

How to summarize?First, the reader must read content, and interpret the content into his or her own understanding.

The reader must look for the most important ideas within the content.

Lastly, the reader must put all of the main ideas together in a logical order.

Example of SummarizingJerry could not wait until school got out for the weekend. This weekend he was going camping with his dad. Jerry could already feel the campfire’s warmth and taste the s’mores. His dad took him camping last year, and they caught many fish near the stream and saw many animals. Jerry looked forward to this camping trip with his dad every year. Jerry looks forward to going camping with his dad every year.Jerry likes to sit around the campfire and eat s’mores. Last year Jerry and his dad caught many fish and saw many animals.

How Summaries Can Be UsedTaking notes in class

Repeating a story Knowing if you want to read

a whole book Knowing if you want to

watch a movie

Resources

Pearson Custom Education: Developing Literacy: LITR 3130. New York: Pearson Learning Solutions, p. 376-378.

Write on Reader. Retrieved 2/17/2012 from: http://library.thinkquest.org/J001156/forms%20of%20writing/bc_summary.htm

Jones, Raymond (2009). Strategies for Reading Comprehension-Summarizing. Retrieved 2/17/2012, from http://www.readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html

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