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Summarizing Organizer Worksheet

Using Summarizing Organizer Worksheet, studentssummarize the following text by underlining key words and phrases to break down the larger ideas.

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How to teach Summarizing

Using Summarizing Organizer Worksheet, studentssummarize the following text by underlining key words and phrases to break down the larger ideas.

Summarizing is the act of taking larger selections of text and reducing them to their bare essentials. Summarizing is pulling out the main idea, the gist of a text, the main points.

Read a short text. Next, write a summary of the text by using skills such as

underlining, note-taking, and finding key words. Then, rewrite the summary so that it is even shorter and more to the point by choosing only the most important information relevant to the main idea

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If you are using this worksheet, your students are probably learning about summarizing.

Use this Note Taking and Summarizing Graphic Organizer as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this worksheet by reviewing how to find important details in a text. Ask students to help you figure out the difference between an important and interesting detail. Then, have students complete worksheet independently or with a partner as they read. Once finished, have students share out the notes they took as they read.

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