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SUMMARIZING

Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials.:
the gist, the main points that are worth noting and remembering.
• An important skill in critical reading Is often used to determine the essential ideas in a
book, article, book chapter, an article, or parts of an article
• It is generally done after reading or while reading a text.
What is not Summarizing?
➢ Write down everything
➢ Write down ideas from the text word-for-word Write down incoherent and irrelevant ideas
➢ Write down ideas that are not stated in the text, or
➢ Write down a summary that has the same length or is longer than the original text.
BASIC RULES

• Erase things that don’t matter.


• Erase things that repeat.
• Trade, general terms for specific names.
• Use you’re your own words to write the summary.
Techniques in Summarizing Academic Texts
1. Somebody Wanted But So
➢ The strategy helps the students generalize, recognize the cause-and-effect
relationships, and find main ideas.

SOMEBODY WANTED BUT SO THEN


(The text is (What did the (What was the (How, was the (Tell how the
about who?) main character problem problem solved?) story ends.)
want?) encountered?)

Little Red Riding She wanted to She encountered She ran away, A woodsman
Hood take cookies to a wolf pretending crying for help. heard her and
her sick to be her saved her from
grandmother. grandmother. the wolf.

After answering the questions, combine the answers to form a summary.


Little Red Riding Hood wanted to take cookies to her sick grandmother, but she encountered
a wolf. He got to her grandmother’s house first and pretended to be the old woman. He was going
to eat Little Red Riding Hood, but she realized what he was doing and ran away, crying for help.
A woodsman heard the girl’s cries and saved her from the wolf.

2.) SAAC METHOD- This method is particularly helpful in summarizing any kind of text. SAAC is
an acronym for “State, Assign, Action, Complete.” Each word in the acronym refers to a specific
element that should be included in the summary.

STATE ASSIGN ACTION COMPLETE


(The name of the (the name of the (what the author is (complete the sentence or
article, book, or author) doing (example: tells, summary with keywords and
story) explains) important details)
“The Boy Who Aesop (A Greek tells What happens when a
Cried Wolf” storyteller) shepherd boy repeatedly lies to
the villagers about seeing a
wolf.

Use the four SAAC cues to write out a summary of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf "in complete
sentences.
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf," by Aesop (a Greek storyteller), tells what happens when a shepherd boy
repeatedly lies to the villagers about seeing a wolf. After a while, they ignore his false cries. Then,
when a wolf really does attack, they don’t come to help him.
3.) 5 W’s, 1H - This technique relies on six crucial questions: who, what, when where, why,
and how. These questions make it easy to identify the main character, important details, and
main idea.
Try this technique with a familiar fable such as “ The Tortoise and the Hare.”

WHO is the WHAT WHEN did WHERE did WHY did the HOW did the
story did they the action the story main character main character
about? do? take place? happen? do what s/he do what s/he
did? did?
The He raced a When isn’t An old The Tortoise was The tortoise kept
Tortoise quick specified in country tired of hearing up his slow but
boastful this story, so road. the hare boast steady pace.
hare and it’s not about his speed.
won. important in
this case.

4.) FIRST THE FINALLY - This technique helps students summarize events in chronological
order.

FIRST: What happened first? Include the main character and main event/
action.
THEN: What key details took place during the event/ action?

FINALLY: What were the results of the event/ action?

Here is an example using "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."


First, Goldilocks entered the bears' home while they were gone. Then, she ate their food, sat in
their chairs, and slept in their beds. Finally, she woke up to find the bears watching her, so she
jumped up and ran away.
5.) GIVE ME THE GIST
This type of techniques is like giving a friend the gist of a story. In other words, they want
a summary – not a retelling of every detail.

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