ppt. 3

Cards (21)

  • Summarizing is the process of taking larger selections of text and reducing them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering.
  • A summary, according to Webster's, is the "general idea in brief form"; it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions.
  • In summarizing a text, it's important to erase things that don't matter, eliminate repetition, trade general terms for specific names, use your own words, and follow the basic rules of summarizing.
  • The 5 W's, 1 H technique in summarizing a text is a strategy that helps students generalize, recognize cause and effect relationships, and find main ideas.
  • The SOMEBODY, WANTED, BUT, SO, THEN technique in summarizing a text helps students understand the story by stating the name of the article, book, or story, assigning the name of the author, describing the author's action, and completing the sentence or summary with keywords and important details.
  • The SAAC Method in summarizing a text is a technique that can be used to summarize any kind of text.
  • The strategy of using the four SAAC cues to write out a summary of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" in complete sentences is particularly helpful in summarizing any kind of text.
  • The story is about a tortoise who raced a quick, boastful hare and won.
  • The tortoise was tired of hearing the hare boast about his speed.
  • The second step in summarizing events in chronological order is to list the key details that took place during the event/action.
  • These questions make it easy to identify the main character, important details, and main idea.
  • The first step in summarizing events in chronological order is to identify the main character and main event/action.
  • The third step in summarizing events in chronological order is to list the results of the event/action.
  • The summarizing technique "First then Finally" can be used to summarize events in chronological order.
  • Local marks of the ligature were readily discernible: there were some abrasions and a slight ecchymosis in the skin, but I found no obvious lesion in the blood vessels of the neck.
  • The text entitled "From the Autopsy Surgeon’s Report" states that death occurred from the effects of asphyxia, cerebral anemia, and shock.
  • The technique of 5 W's, 1 H relies on six crucial questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how.
  • The tortoise kept up his slow but steady pace.
  • Cyanosis of the head was very slight and there were no pronounced hemorrhages in the galea of the scalp.
  • The victim’s hair was used for the constriction ligature.
  • In the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," Goldilocks entered the bears' home while they were gone, ate their food, sat in their chairs, and slept in their beds, and then woke up to find the bears watching her, so she jumped up and ran away.