Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Reading Strategy: Summarising compiled by M. Siwak.

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Reading Strategy: Summarising compiled by M. Siwak."— Presentation transcript:

1 Reading Strategy: Summarising compiled by M. Siwak

2 Summarising is when you identify the most important ideas and restate them in your own words.

3 How do I summarise? Be a news reporter and be able to answer the: Who? When? Where? What? How? Why?

4 How do I summarise? Be a detective: Highlight key words List key events or information Use mind maps Take notes Arrange events in order of importance

5 Identify key events and supporting details Reread Look at the title Look at the first and last paragraph Ask yourself: what was the text about? Look at captions, pictures, subheadings, words in bold and words in different font. Look for text or information that is repeated. Identify what happens first, next, then, finally…

6 Visuals may help!

7 Determine what is important: list key events in order of importance Give notes a power rating 3-2-1 Strategy Power 1Power 2Power 3 Power 2Power 3 3 major events 2 interesting facts 1 question you still have

8 Summarise the main idea in one or two sentences. Think, pair and share.

9 Highlight 5 words or less to summarise: compare with partner In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in which Charlie lived, there was an ENORMOUS CHOCOLCATE FACTORY! Just imagine that! And it wasn’t simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. It was the largest and most famous in the whole world! It was WONKA’S FACTORY, owned by a man classed Mr Willy Wonka, the greatest inventor and maker of chocolates that there has ever been. And what a tremendous, marvellous place it was! It had huge iron gates leading into it, and a high and strange whizzing sounds coming from deep inside it. And out the walls, for a half a mile around in every direction, the air was scented with the heavy rich smell of melting chocolate!

10 Identify 10 key words List 3 key events Point out 3 supporting details But Augustus was deaf to everything except the call of his enormous stomach. He was now lying full length on the ground with his head far out over the river, lapping up the chocolate like a dog. “Augustus!” shouted Mrs Gloop. “You’ll be giving that nasty cold of yours to about a million people all over the country!” Be careful, Augustus!” shouted Mr Gloop. “You’re leaning too far out!” Mr Gloop was absolutely right. For suddenly there was a shriek, and then a splash, and into the river went Augustus Gloop, and in one second he had disappeared under the brown surface. “Save him!” screamed Mrs Gloop, going white in the face and waving her umbrella about. He’ll drown! He can’t swim a yard! Save him! Save him!... “There he goes!” sombody shouted, pointing upwards. And sure enough, because the pipe was made of glass, Augustus Gloop could be clearly seen shooting up inside it, head first, like a torpedo.

11 After you have summarised you can synthesize: the putting together of the parts so as to form a whole.

12 Change your mind Change your thinking Good readers continually change their thinking in response to a text I used to think…. ….but now I think I’m changing my mind about …. Now I understand why… I understand this because… I learned that…


Download ppt "Reading Strategy: Summarising compiled by M. Siwak."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google