Try to recall one of the novels or short

stories you discussed in one of your previous

classes in English; choose one selection out of
the several you tackled throughout your
school life.

Retell the story using 5 sentences

only.
Did you find the retelling of the story
difficult? Why or why not?
What strategies did you employ in order
to retell the story?
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Summarizing
Techniques
Lesson 3
 EXPECTATIONS
• In this lesson, you will have to use various
techniques in summarizing a variety of
academic texts.
Specifically, this lesson will help you to:
• use specifi c techniques in summarizing
academic texts; and
• summarize academic texts for better
understanding and learning of
academic texts.
What is
SUMMARY?
is an academic paper that contains a thesis
statement/main idea and summarized
subordinating points of a text.
presents the most essential pieces of
information in paragraphs following the I-B-
C format for academic papers like research
abstract, precis, report, synopsis and
others.
outlines the most essential pieces of
information for academic paper like
resume.
In short, summary is a concise
 SUMMARIZING
 is defined as a strategy used to
identify the thesis statement/ main
idea and to write a summarized form
of subordinating points.
 uses a precise and specific
language.
 Summarizing Techniques
Technique1:
Using of TITLE, AUTHOR, OBJECTIVE,
THEME, FINDINGS and IMPLICATION/S or
CONCLUSION. These pieces of
information are commonly found in
what we call research abstract.
 Summarizing Techniques
Technique 2:
Using of WHAT, WHO, WHERE, WHEN,
WHY and HOW information of a text.
These pieces of information are found
in summarizing articles like news
articles, reports and others.
 Summarizing Techniques
Technique 3:
Using of orders, steps or procedures
and with the help of TRANSITIONAL
SIGNALS like, first, second, then and
etc.
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 fi rst 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.
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.
In order to write an eff ective
and concise summary, another
skill is
required and that is
paraphrasing.
Paraphrasing is employed when
borrowing other’s idea or text in
writing your own paper without directly
quoting the source.
Here are important reminders in
using paraphrasing:
Identify and do NOT alter the main
idea/ thesis statement/ primary
message of a text.
Restate other’s main idea and
subordinating points in a different form
using your own words.
Cite the source of the text using the
prescribed citation format.
Prac. Act.
Summarize by
getting the
main idea of
the text.
 It is physically impossible for a well-educated,
intellectual and brave man to make money the chief
object of his thoughts. Just like all healthy people
who like their dinners, but their dinner is not the
main object of their lives. So, all healthy minded
people like making money and enjoy the sensation
of winning, but the object of their lives is not
money, it it is something better than money. A good
soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his
fighting well. He is glad of his pay-very properly so
and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years
without it-still, his main mission of life is to win
The clergyman's objective is essentially baptize and
preach and not to be paid for preaching. So of
doctors. They like fees no doubt, yet if they are brave
and well-educated the entire object to their lives is
not fees. They on the whole, desire to cure the sick;
and if they are good doctors and the choice were
fairly put to them, they would rather cure their
patient and lose their fee than kill him and get it. And
so with all the other brave and rightly trained men:
their work is first, their fee second-very important
always; but still second. But there is the notion that
there are vast numbers of people who are ill-
educated, cowardly and more or less, stupid. And
 Summarizing
Main Idea- topic
sentence
Supporting detail 1
Supporting detail 2
Supporting detail 3
Concluding sentence
 Summa
ry
Doms Caballero in his article entitled “Parents at the
Frontline in education” stated that parents play a
signifi cant role in their children’s learning process, and
that they must be provided with the capacity to assume
this role.
Barack Obama, the former president of the US said that
it’s the family that fi rst instills the love of learning in a
child.
Dr. Ned Hallowel emphasized the need for a child to
engage with adults, peers and community in order to
grow and mature properly.
He further illustrated this idea by saying that each adult
can serve as a short book chapter for a kid.
This is the parents’ most signifi cant part in the
education of their children yet it is also the most
negligible role among the many poor families.
Technique1:
Using of TITLE, AUTHOR, OBJECTIVE, THEME,
FINDINGS and IMPLICATION/S or CONCLUSION.
 REMEMBER
• A summary…
states the main ideas in source
concisely and in your own words.
 is a restatement of someone else's
words in your own words.
is a brief overview of an entire
discussion or argument expressed in
your own words.
can be a sentence, paragraph or more
to present the main ideas of a whole
book or text.
 REMEMBER
• BUT a summary…
• X does not present the entire details.
• X does not include supporting details.
• X does not include a lengthy detail of
the topic
 REMEMBER
• When and why summarize?
 to highlight the main points or ideas.
 to present the overviews of the whole
text for busy people.
 to be more economical or to save the
time of the readers.
 to incorporate only the main ideas
when other details are unimportant.
 Techniques in
1. Using ofsummarizing
TITLE, AUTHOR, OBJECTIVE, THEME,
FINDINGS
and IMPLICATION/S or CONCLUSION.
2. Using of WHAT, WHO, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and
HOW information of a text.
3. Using of orders, steps or procedures and with
the
help of TRANSITIONAL SIGNALS like, first,
second, then and etc.
4. Somebody Wanted But So.
5. SAAC Method.SAAC is an acronym for “State,
Assign,
Action, Complete.