The Simple Summary

hello again students and welcome back to miss Bullock's flipped classroom so today one of the skills that we want to work on is summarizing so today's lesson will be on the simple summary go from this to this in less than five minutes so before we begin summarizing the first thing we need to know is what exactly is sum summarizing well summarizing is giving short statement of the important points that's all we're just taking all of the extra stuff out why is it important well summarizing allows us to restate key information not really little details but key information in way that is short and it's in order so you say all right so how do do this summarizing thing okay well as it turns out it's actually pretty easy so what you're going to do is use the five fingers in five words or less in less than five minutes method this is pretty awesome so you want to take look at your hand your hand is important here and I've drawn big one for us here okay and with your fingers you do the who the what the when the where the why and then in the poem The how so step one write who was in this story in five words or less okay write what happened in the story in five words or less this one's going to be the hardest one to do in five words or less when it happened in five words or less you can probably get this one in in three words where it happened in five words or less again you can probably get this one in one to two words and step five write why it happened in five words or less that one's going to be tricky one it'll take you probably close to all five words and step six write how it happened in five words or less again that one's probably going to take you your five words so after all of that put five minutes on timer that's all the time you have and then you begin this what next next you're going to write one to three sentence summary okay using your words to explain what happened in the text okay so now what I've got my one to three sentences if you have 25 words or more your summary is too long so you're going to have to cut out details all right just just details not main stuff and then you will be sure to make your summary no more than 20 words long if you've done all that congrats you just made summary using the five fingers in five words or less in less than five minutes congratulations I'll see you in class and be sure to study for your vocab