Summarising the Main Idea
Good readers notice key words. Here are some clues to help you find key words:
- Key words are directly connected to the topic
- Key words are often repeated in the title and the text
- A key word helps you to remember an important idea
Use this table to help you summarise the main ideas in a text in your own words. It is important that you use your own words to show your understanding and to avoid plagiarism. If you don’t know what some words mean, look them up.
Keywords from the title
-Overboard
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Keywords from subheadings
-Scientist
-Plastic
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New words I need to look up
-Adrift
-Undoubtedly
-Oceanographer
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Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:
What?
-What happened is that at January 1992, a ship was sailing wit containers filled with rubber bath toys.
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Where?
-It was on the sea, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, South America and North America.
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When?
-It happened at January 1992.
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Who?
-Scientist, Curtis Embbesmeyer.
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Why?
-A big, strong, stupendous storm.
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How?
-The rubber bath toys were dragged by the sea.
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Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less.
At January 1992 a ship was on sea and had containers on it filled with rubber bath toys. After that a stupendous storm came and the bath toys got away.
L.I. To look for keywords and phrases
What I learned was how to summarise a piece of text.
Summarising is retelling a story in your own words.
I also learned the five W's and one H.
How I learned was that Mr Ogilvie made a activity for us to do.
We had to figure out the five W's and 1 H.
We also needed the key words to figure out how to summarise a piece of text.
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