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Summarizing involves distilling a story into its essential components using your own words. An effective summary is significantly shorter than the original story and highlights only the most important events or ideas without incorporating personal opinions. Key elements to include in your summary are the setting, main characters, conflict, and resolution, along with critical details that connect the problem to the resolution. Creating a story map can be a helpful tool in crafting a thorough and concise summary.
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Summarizing is telling the important events or ideas in a story in your own words.
A good summary gives only the most important events or ideas in a story.
Read pages 17-18 of the story, then compare it to the following summary.
In this part of the story, Chita hurries to finish drying the dishes after supper so she can spend special time with her father.
When she’s done, she sits next to her father. Then, she asks him to tell the story about when he was a brave soldier.
Her father agrees and says that she can help him tell the story.
To summarize a story, you need to include to include the narrative elements.
You should include the setting, the main characters, the problem and the resolution.
Important details that take you from the problem to the resolution should be included in the summary.
