Lesson 6- Summarizing

Question 1

As an important skill in critical reading, summarizing is often used to determine the essential ideas in a book
chapter, an article. These essential ideas include the gist or main idea, useful information, or key words or
phrases that help you meet your reading purpose.

Answer 1

SUMMARIZING

Question 2

generally done after reading. However, it can be done as well while reading a text.

Answer 2

SUMMARIZING

Question 3

is an important skill because it helps you deepen your understanding of the text, identify relevant information or key ideas, combine details or examples that support the main ideas/s, concentrate on
the gist or main idea and key words presented in the text, and capture the key ideas in the text and put them
together clearly and concisely.

Answer 3

SUMMARIZING

Question 4

basic rules in summarizing?

Answer 4

1. Erase things that don’t matter.
2. Erase the things that repeat.
3. Trade general terms for specific names.
4. Use your own words to write the summary.

Question 5

Techniques in Summarizing

Answer 5

1. Somebody Wanted But So.
2. SAAC Method .
3. 5 W’s 1H
4. First Then Finally
5. Give Me the Gist .

Question 6

This strategy helps students
generalize, recognize cause and effect relationships, and
find main ideas.

Answer 6

Somebody Wanted But So.

Question 7

summarizing any kind of text. SAAC is an acronym for ?

Answer 7

State, Assign, Action, Complete

Question 8

This method is particularly helpful in
summarizing any kind of text.

Answer 8

SAAC Method

Question 9

This technique relies on six crucial questions

Answer 9

5 W’s 1H

Question 10

5 W’s 1H means?

Answer 10

who, what,
when where, why, and how.

Question 11

This technique helps students
summarize events in chronological order.

Answer 11

First Then Finally

Question 12

This type of technique is like giving a friend the gist of a story. In other words, they want a summary not a retelling of every detail.

Answer 12

Give Me the Gist

Question 13

this is an example of what?
First, Goldilocks entered the bears’ home while they were gone Then, she ate their food, sat in their chairs, and slept in their beds Finally, she woke up to find the bears watching her, so she jumped up and ran away

Answer 13

First Then Finally

Question 14

this is an example of what?
The boastful hare dared the tortoise into a
race in an old country road The tortoise was tired of hearing the hare boast about his speed When the hare was sleeping, he kept up his slow and steady pace and won

Answer 14

5 W’s 1H

Question 15

this is an example of what?
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” by Aesop (a Greek storyteller), tells what happens when a shepherd boy repeatedly lies to the villagers about seeing a wolf After a while, they ignore his false cries Then, when a wolf really does attack, they don’t come to help him

Answer 15

SAAC Method