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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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.