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Summarizing What Is It?: When To Use: Before Reading During Reading After Reading

Summarizing involves condensing a written or spoken work into a shortened version that focuses on the key points and leaves out unnecessary details. It requires analyzing information to distinguish important elements from unimportant ones and translating a large amount of information into a few cohesive sentences. Summarizing can be used with fiction, nonfiction, media, conversations, meetings, and events. Effective summarizing helps students learn essential ideas, focus on important words and phrases, and reduce lengthy texts to their main points for clearer understanding.

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Summarizing What Is It?: When To Use: Before Reading During Reading After Reading

Summarizing involves condensing a written or spoken work into a shortened version that focuses on the key points and leaves out unnecessary details. It requires analyzing information to distinguish important elements from unimportant ones and translating a large amount of information into a few cohesive sentences. Summarizing can be used with fiction, nonfiction, media, conversations, meetings, and events. Effective summarizing helps students learn essential ideas, focus on important words and phrases, and reduce lengthy texts to their main points for clearer understanding.

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Summarizing

What Is It?
To summarize is to put in your own words a shortened version
of written or spoken material,
stating the main points and leaving out everything that is not
essential.
Summarizing is more than retelling.
It involves analyzing information, distinguishing important
from unimportant elements and translating large chunks of
information into a few short cohesive sentences.
Fiction and nonfiction texts, media, conversations, meetings,
and events can all be summarized.

When to use: Before


During reading After reading
reading

How to use: With small Whole class


Individually
groups setting
Why use summarizing?

 It helps students learn to determine essential ideas and


consolidate important details that support them.
 It enables students to focus on key words and phrases of
an assigned text that are worth noting and
remembering.
 It teaches students how to take a large selection of text
and reduce it to the main points for more concise
understanding.

How to use summarizing


1. Begin by reading OR have students listen to the text
selection.

2. Ask students the following framework questions:

a.What are the main ideas?


b.What are the crucial details necessary for
supporting the ideas?

c.What information is irrelevant or unnecessary?

3. Have them use key words or phrases to identify the main


points from the text

Have students use the steps


1. Start by skimming the text to get an idea of what the text
is about.

2. Cross out sentences that are not necessary or that are


redundant to help them pull out what is crucial to the
message of the piece.

3. Mark key words and phrases and jot down notes about
the main idea. Instruct students to look for signal words
such as therefore, in conclusion, or in summary.

4. Have them verbally summarize the nonfiction piece to a


peer.

5. Then, have them reread the text and write a summary


paragraph. In the summary, students should state the
text's main idea in the first sentence and include the most
important information. Be sure that students have not
included any opinions of their own or sentences word-
for-word from the original text.

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