Objective: I can construct a summary by paraphrasing the main idea and supporting details.

Do Now: What is main idea? What are supporting details?

Summarizing Informational Text

“Today we are going to learn how to summarize informational text. This is a comprehension strategy that will help us understand the main ideas, or most important ideas, that the author is trying to tell us. We want to remember and be able to use these important ideas in the future.” Informational text is a type of…

a)Fiction textb)Non-fiction textc)Does not have a specific genred)Similar to reality TV

Steps to Writing a Summary

1. Read the text

2. Find the topic (Main Idea)

3. Identify the important ideas

(Supporting Details)

4. Restate the important ideas in your

own words.

Who or what is this about

What are the important ideas?

GumDifferent forms of gum have been around for centuries. Long ago, the Mayans chewed on sticky tree sap. They called it chicle. The ancient Greeks chewed a form of gum, too. It was called mastic gum. This gum was the resin obtained from the bark of a mastic tree. American settlers made gum from spruce sap. They mixed it with beeswax. Later, fruit and mint flavors were added to these sappy-flavored gums. More than one person worked on a recipe for bubble gum. Early bubble gum didn't "bubble." Walter Diemer is given credit for the invention of bubble gum in 1928. It was called Double Bubble. Today, many kinds of gum are available. Gum has come a long way!

Summary

Gum has existed for hundreds of years. Ancient Greeks chewed mastic gum, which came from the bark of a mastic tree. American settlers made gum from a mixture of spruced sap and beeswax, and in 1928 Walter Diemer invented Double Bubble bubble gum.

Try it with a partner…You will randomly choose a partner.

Read the text together.

Go back into the text, and underline the main idea and 3 supporting details.

Work with your partner to restate the important details.

REMEMBER…I will be monitoring to make sure that everyone is following our procedures for working with a partner or group.

The Difference Between Paraphrasing and Summarizing

To paraphrase means to express someone else's ideas in your own language. To summarize means to distill only the most essential points of someone else's work.

Think about how much of the detail from your source is relevant. If all your reader needs to know is the ‘bare bones’, then summarize.