Summary

📖Story Brief #10

A summary includes the main idea and key details.

🎯 Your mission

Notice the details no one mentions.

⚡ The twist

Look for what the author shows, not just what they tell.

What You'll Learn

A summary includes the main idea and key details. A summary includes the main idea and key details. We tell the big idea and important parts.

A summary includes the main idea and key details.

We tell the big idea and important parts.

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Is summarizing the same as finding the main idea?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Try this in real life this week.

Explain something you read this week to a grown-up.

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“What was the main idea of what you read today?”

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