SUMMARIZING READING REVIEW SUMMARIZING Convert all the information

SUMMARIZING READING REVIEW

SUMMARIZING • Convert all the information provided in a passage or paragraph to a simple form. In other words, take a longer story or non-fiction piece and retell it y briefly stating only the important ideas and details. • Basically telling your friend about a book you just read in only a few precise sentences.

A GOOD SUMMARY ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING: • WHO is the information of story about? (Main characters) • Where does the information or story take place? (Setting) • What is the main problem/conflict of the story or the main topic? • What is the solution of the story? • What is the lesson of the story, if there is one?

LET’S PRACTICE In two sentences (each sentence 12 words or less) write as much as you can about the following events in your life. Include the main characters, setting, and the conflict/solution. In other words, SUMMARIZE!

1. Your best birthday: 2. Your worst day of school ever: 3. A family vacation you will never forget: 4. The best book you have ever read: 5. The best movie you have ever seen:

NAME THE STORY! What story is being summarized in each of the following summaries?

A wolf looking for food finds three pigs, each one having their own home made of straw, sticks, and finally, bricks. The wolf knocks on each door, threatening to blow their house down. The pigs with the straw and sticks fall victim to the wolf’s threat. The wolf is not able to blow the brick house down.

A lonely carpenter made a puppet out of wood. A fairy cast a spell which allowed the puppet to walk and talk. The puppet was caught lying when he was supposed to use money from the carpenter to buy books and instead he bought tickets to a circus. Every time the puppet lied his nose would grow. After the fairy caught the puppet telling more lies, his nose grew again. After a life threatening situation with the carpenter, the puppet promised to never lie again.

A son and his mother were very hungry so the mother gave him a cow to take to town and buy food, but instead he traded lucky beans for his cow from a farmer. Angry, the mother threw the beans out the window and a huge stalk began to grow. After climbing the stalk, the boy was in a giant’s castle. Finding all the things that had been stolen from his father in the castle, the boy stole them back by making the giant fall asleep. The giant came after him but the boy cut the stalk down.

WHAT ABOUT HISTORICAL EVENTS? Germany began the war by invading Poland in 1939. Nazis, under the leadership of Hitler, were determined to take over Europe and wage terror on Jews. Leaders of Italy and Japan formed an alliance with Germany to take over other parts of the world. Allies of the United States, France and England, were being attacked but not until Japan invaded Pearl Harbor in the United States in 1941 did the United States declare war. After four years of long fought battles and a dropping of the first atomic bomb in Japan, the United States declared victory and won the war.

On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of men calling themselves the “Sons of Liberty” went to the Boston Harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor, and the Dartmouth, and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.

Read the following passages and write a good summary for each: Biblio. Tech How would you feel if you walked into your local public library and instead of hundreds of shelves with all kinds of exciting books, you were entering a large room that resembled a computer store compete with aisles of computers and other electronic gadgets? That, is exactly the idea that Nelson Wolff has for Biblio. Tech, a new kind of public library that is scheduled to open in San Antonio, Texas. The Texas judge says that while he loves actual books, he believes that it is time to bring technology to the library and fill it with e-books only! While the library will not have any physical books, it will have over 10, 000 e-books for citizens to browse through and even download onto their own e-readers. For those who do not yet have access to an i. Pad, Nook, Kindle, or other e-reading device, there will be a total of 150 e-readers available to borrow, 50 of which will be reserved for kids! In addition, the library will also feature 50 computer stations, 25 laptops and 25 tablets for people to enjoy.

Jack and Parker’s Idea Jack and his friend Parker were intrigued by all the noise from the people rioting on their way to school. Workers at a factory close to their school were striking due to low wages and long hours. The workers were rioting with signs in front of the factory. They had signs with catch slogans like, “We need pay, if you want us to stay!” Jack got the idea that if the factory workers could go on strike, why not have the kids go on strike? Every year the principal and teachers were taking more and more recess from the students. They were only given twenty minutes of recess and some teachers wasted ten minutes of that time lining kids up. To make matters worse, students even had to walk a mile at the beginning of each recess and sometimes there was no time left to even socialize with friends. On Wednesday, Jack and Parker told all their friends to not go to school and make signs to carry in front of the building. However, when one student told his parents, the strike was off. The parent called the principal and the principal called Jack’s and Parker’s parents. Jack’s and Parker’s idea wasn’t so bad after all. When the principal found out how much the students were bothered by the shortened recess, she decided to