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English 5: LESSON 3: Summarizing Information From Various Text Types

The document provides guidance on summarizing information from various text types. It discusses how text type influences summary writing and notes the importance of retaining the text type's purpose and audience. The document also provides examples of an original text and its summary, and identifies differences between the two. Finally, it offers strategies for summarizing, such as observing text features, highlighting important vocabulary, identifying the topic sentence, using reporter's notes, and creating graphic organizers.

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English 5: LESSON 3: Summarizing Information From Various Text Types

The document provides guidance on summarizing information from various text types. It discusses how text type influences summary writing and notes the importance of retaining the text type's purpose and audience. The document also provides examples of an original text and its summary, and identifies differences between the two. Finally, it offers strategies for summarizing, such as observing text features, highlighting important vocabulary, identifying the topic sentence, using reporter's notes, and creating graphic organizers.

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ENGLISH 5

THIRD QUARTER- WEEK 3

LESSON 3: Summarizing Information from Various Text Types


At the end of this module, you are expected to:
1. observe politeness at all times;
2. show tactfulness when communicating with others; and
3. make a stand. (EN5O-IIh-4)

It is important for writers to learn about text types as they influence how summaries are written. Since these text
types serve different purpose and satisfy various audience, these need to be retained when summaries are written. In the
next activity, you will learn more about the skills needed in summarizing.
Read and understand the two selections below. After reading, compare them by answering the guide questions.

A.
One Saturday morning, Tipoy woke up late and was told by his mother to go to the grocery
to buy some goodies. On his way to the grocery store, he met his friend Emman who is playing a
mobile game.
“Hey Tipoy, where are you going?” asked Emman.
“I’m going to Kikin’s Store to buy bread and drinks,” Tipoy answered.
“Look! My mother bought me a new cell phone”, Emman proudly shows his new cell phone
to him.
Tipoy was so amazed at the new gadget of his friend. He tried the mobile game and enjoyed
playing it. After a couple of minutes, he realized that his mother was waiting for him. He hurriedly
went to the grocery store and got the goodies he needs to buy. When he was about to pay the bills,
he checked his pocket and found it empty. He realized that he had lost the money and felt scared
at that moment. He thought of losing the money while playing the mobile game with his friend
Emman. He ran as fast as he could to the area where they played mobile games. He asked his
friend if he saw the money he was looking for. Emman told him that he never saw it. He advised
him instead to go home and tell his mother the truth.
Tipoy went home empty-handed. He went to his mother with tears and told her what had
happened. His mother smiled at him calmly and said, “Next time you need to have the presence of
mind. You went to the grocery store without asking for money from me.”. Tipoy sighed and felt
relieved. He hugged his mother with a smile on his face

B.
Tipoy was instructed by his mother to buy some goodies in the grocery. His attention was
caught by his friend Emman who was playing a mobile game and later played with him. In the
grocery, he was not able to buy goodies for he thought he had lost the money. It was then he
realized that he forgot to ask for money from his mother when he arrived home

Guide Questions:
1. How is Text A different from Text B?
2. How are the two texts the same?
3. Do they contain the same main idea and details?

In the previous activity, it is obvious that Text B is the summary of Text A which is the original text. When
summarizing text, you noticed how important it was for you to filter important from less important information. So, why
do we need to filter when we can put everything? Loading your brain and your reader’s brain with too much information
is not effective. The more is not the merrier in terms of information overload. While some treat is as a gift, mismanaging
information can also be a curse. With this abundance of information, we need to know what we only need given the
tasks required from us, so we do not waste both time and effort.
What is summarizing? Summarizing is a powerful reading and writing strategy. It increases comprehension and
retention of information. When you summarize, you retain the most important information of a text, using your own
words.
Why is summarizing important? Summarizing helps you understand and learn important information by
reducing it down to its key ideas.
Let us look at some strategies/tricks that will help you summarize information.

Summarizing Tricks
In summarizing text, we can look at text features, vocabulary, and topic sentence to identify the most important
details of the text.
1. Observe text features.
Text features such as titles, subtitles, texture/size, color, margin notes, etc. are clues to a text’s most important
information --- information you may want to include in your summary.
2. Take note of highlighted vocabulary words.
If a text gives you a list of important vocabulary in its preview, take note of these vocabulary words as they may be
important information that should be included in your summary.
3. Identify the topic sentence.
When reading a long text, identify the topic sentence in each paragraph. A topic sentence holds the most important
information in a paragraph. Therefore, a summary can be written simply by synthesizing the topic sentences into your
own words.
4. Use reporter’s notes (Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?)
Identify the answer to each of the above items. Take note of your answers, arrange them in a paragraph and you have a
good summary.
5. Use Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers are a visual and graphic display that depicts relationships between facts, terms, and/or ideas within a
learning task. It is often referred to as knowledge maps, concept maps, story maps, or concept diagrams. Use them to
make more sense of the most important concepts you found in the long text.

Information may come from different sources and are presented in various text types. For us to understand
better the core message of such information, we need to summarize the text we have read.
Summarizing is a powerful reading and writing strategy. It increases comprehension and retention of
information. When you summarize, you restate the most important information of a text, using your own words.
There are strategies/tricks that will help us summarize information such as observing text features, taking note
of the highlighted vocabulary list, knowing the topic sentence, using reporter’s notes (Who? What? Where? When?
Why? How?), and utilizing graphic organizers.

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