Reading Week 5: Summarising

We Are Learning To Summarise

 

What is summarising?

Summarising teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarise improves their memory for what is read. From Reading Rockets

 

How do I summarise?

Ask yourself the following questions (Mum or Dad can ask you these when you are reading at home too!):

1. What are the main ideas?
2. What are the important details crucial to the text?
3. What information is irrelevant or unnecessary (not important)?

Then in very few words write down the main ideas and important details in a way that tells your reader briefly what the text was about.

 

Reading activity

1. For reading this week, choose an article from Kiwi Kids News or Dogo News (Kiwi Kids has shorter articles). Read the article carefully.
2. Write down the main ideas and important details in your reading book.
3. When you get off the computer, use that information to write a short summary of only one or two sentences.