This document provides instructions and information about summarizing texts. It defines summarizing as reducing a text to its main idea and necessary information, as opposed to paraphrasing which includes more details. A series of steps for summarizing are outlined, including identifying the thesis, grouping details, replacing lists with words, and changing words but not meaning. Students are instructed to complete activities that involve summarizing stories using graphic organizers, watching a video and summarizing it, and answering questions about summarizing.

3. What is the first
step in the
research process?
Identify and develop
your topic

4. What are the
reasons why it is
important to do a
research?
Answers may vary

5. Activity 1
Entry Ticket

6. INSTRUCTIONS:
Watch the video about the
historical events of the
Philippines and write a one-
sentence summary about it.
Write your answer on the entry
ticket given.

7. What would you do to
continue what had our
heroes started from
the past?
Answers may vary

8. Summarizing
a Text

9. Most Essential Learning Competency:
Summarize key
information from a
text. EN6OL-IVj-3.6

10. Objectives:
a. Define summarizing;
b. Pick out important details from
a text; and
c. Acknowledge the aid of
summarizing in various aspects
of life.

11. Activity 2
Graphic
Organizers

12. INSTRUCTIONS:
The class will be divided into 6
groups. Each group will be
assigned with different stories to
summarize, using different kind of
graphic organizers. Also,
yells/chants by group will be
presented before the answers.

13. Scoring:
Correctness – 10 pts
Teamwork – 5 pts
Time Consciousness – 5 pts
Yells/Chants – 5 pts
Total – 25 pts

14. Group 1
Story: Friendship
Graphic Organizer: Table

15. Title of the Story:
Characters Setting Conflict Theme

16. Group 2
Story: Friendship
Graphic Organizer: Concept Map

18. Group 3
Story: A Carrot, an Egg and the
Coffee Beans
Graphic Organizer: Frayer Model
Diagram

20. Group 4
Story: A Carrot, an Egg and the
Coffee Beans
Graphic Organizer: 5 Sections and
a Headline

22. Group 5
Story: A Father Learns a Lesson
from his Son
Graphic Organizer: Detailed
Wheel

24. Group 6
Story: A Father Learns a Lesson
from his Son
Graphic Organizer: Details
Daisy

26. INSTRUCTIONS:
Every member of the group
must know the answers and how
you have learned them. There will
be 7 minutes given for this activity –
5 minutes for reading the story and
2 minutes for finalizing your
answers.

27. Presentation

28. What is Summarizing?
Summarizing reduces a text to
its main idea and necessary
information.
Summarizing differs from
paraphrasing. Summary leaves
out details and terms.

29. What is Summarizing for?
Summarizing helps you
understand and learn
important information by
reducing information to its
key ideas.

30. How do we summarize?
1. Preview the text.
Gather the information
needed to focus and set
goals.

31. How do we summarize?
2. Read, think about, and
understand the text.
Review the material to make sure
you know it well. Use a dictionary or
context clues to find the meanings of
any important words.

32. How do we summarize?
3. Read for the thesis, main
idea, and evidence.
Annotate as you usually do. If
necessary, map or outline part or
all of the text to find the thesis,
main ideas, and evidence.

33. How do we summarize?
4. Identify and paraphrase the thesis or
topic sentence (which contains the main
idea), or compose one if the topic sentence
is implied.
The main idea is the most important
information or concept in a text. The statement
that you write should mention the underlying
meaning of the article, not just the surface
details.

34. How do we summarize?
5. Group the details (minor
details).
Organize your evidence by
grouping the article into sections. Not
all information is equal: some of the
information is more important than
the rest.

35. How do we summarize?
6. Within your groups of information,
write a word or phrase that can replace
a list of items (avoid using the word
"things") or individual parts of an
action.
You can do this in the margin.
Example: rose, daisy, and mum become
"flowers."

36. How do we summarize?
7. Use basic signal words.
ASK YOURSELF: Who?
What? Where? When? Why?
How? (subject) (action)
(location) (time) (reason)
(procedure)

37. How do we summarize?
8. Change the words but
never the meaning.
A summary uses
paraphrased sentences, with
only occasional quotes from the
original text.

38. How does
Summarizing help
you as a student?
Answers may vary

39. If you would
summarize the good
times in your life, what
would it be like?
Answers may vary

40. If you were to look back,
what would you think
your God is telling you
about your life?
Answers may vary

41. Quiz
Time!

42. Instructions:
There will be exit tickets given
and it will become as your answer
sheet for the quiz. There are two
parts of the quiz, so read the
instructions carefully. There will be
5 minutes for this activity.

43. Time is
up!

44. Answers:
1. B.
2. D.
3. A.
4. B.
5. C.

45. Assignment:
Watch the news tonight
on TV and write a 2-3
sentences summary about
it. Write your answer on a ¼
sheet of paper.

46. Good
bye!