It involves distilling the most important information and conveying the essence of a passage or piece of writing. Summarizing helps students develop their reading comprehension skills and deepen their understanding of fiction texts, such as chapter books, by extracting the main theme or central idea....
RL.5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.RL.6.2 - Determine a theme or central idea of a...
SUMMARY A short account of the central ideas of a text Summaries are NOT a place for… Opinions Background knowledge. COMPREHENSION SKILLS. MAIN IDEA The main idea is the most important idea of the passage as a whole. It is what the passage or story is mostly about. Summarizing...