How To Write A Summary By Maggie Hartwig

Pretend you are a teacher, explain (in your own words) how to write a summary to your students - feel free to make a list! 

When you write a summary what does it force you to do? 

     

Explain ideas on a piece of paper (Google Docs).  When you write a summary it allows you to understand what you are reading. It allows you to understand what you are reading because you chunk it up all the good information into one good  paragraph.

It is useful to read a summary when you have less time of the whole text?  

It is useful to write a summary then you have less time, when it is a shorter passage to read it is easy to understand . Why it is easy to understand is because it breaks the summary  into smaller steps . It's the most important passage to read when you have all the good information.