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Effective Strategies for Summarizing Informative Texts

This guide provides essential tips for summarizing informative texts. It encourages readers to identify key elements while summarizing, including the author, main ideas, and supporting details. By using sentence starters, individuals can structure their summaries effectively and ensure clarity. Learning how to accurately convey main points and conclusions will enhance comprehension and retention of the material. The importance of distinguishing between major and minor details is emphasized to avoid overwhelming readers.

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Effective Strategies for Summarizing Informative Texts

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  1. Tips for Summarizing Informative Texts Choose an informative text you have recently read. Fill in these sentence starters to create a summary of the text. The text _______________________________ by __________________________ is a ______________________________ about _______________________________. The author explains/describes/discusses ________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author’s main ideas are ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author supports his/her main ideas with key details that describe _________________________________________________________________________________. He/she concludes by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

  2. Tips for Summarizing Informative Texts Choose an informative text you have recently read. Fill in these sentence starters to create a summary of the text. The text _______________________________ by __________________________ is a ______________________________ about _______________________________. The author explains/describes/discusses ________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author’s main ideas are ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author supports his/her main ideas with key details that describe _________________________________________________________________________________. He/she concludes by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

  3. Tips for Summarizing Informative Texts Choose an informative text you have recently read. Fill in these sentence starters to create a summary of the text. The text _______________________________ by __________________________ is a ______________________________ about _______________________________. The author explains/describes/discusses ________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author’s main ideas are ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author supports his/her main ideas with key details that describe _________________________________________________________________________________. He/she concludes by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

  4. Tips for Summarizing Informative Texts Choose an informative text you have recently read. Fill in these sentence starters to create a summary of the text. The text _______________________________ by __________________________ is a ______________________________ about _______________________________. The author explains/describes/discusses ________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author’s main ideas are ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author supports his/her main ideas with key details that describe _________________________________________________________________________________. He/she concludes by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

  5. Tips for Summarizing Informative Texts Choose an informative text you have recently read. Fill in these sentence starters to create a summary of the text. The text _______________________________ by __________________________ is a ______________________________ about _______________________________. The author explains/describes/discusses ________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author’s main ideas are ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. The author supports his/her main ideas with key details that describe _________________________________________________________________________________. He/she concludes by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

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