Summarising the Main Idea
L.I. To look for keywords and phrases
LI:To identify the main ideas in the text.
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
- 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
Keywords from the title
Duck Overboard
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Keywords from sub headings
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New words I need to look up
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Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:
What? A stupendous storm washed three containers off a ship.
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Where? Hong Kong to Tacoma, Washington in the United States.
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When? January 1992
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Who? Plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs
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Why? One container spilled its contents into the sea.
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How? A stupendous storm
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Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less.
There was a storm and a cargo ship got hit with lightning and bath toys (Plastic Yellow ducks,blue turtles and green frogs) were set free.
I learnt that summarising is when you find keywords and phrases to summarise the text.I learnt this by doing Summarising the Main idea.We read an article about how a cargo ship had got light struck and it had three big containers on the ship one container tipped in the Ocean.It had Plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs in it and they set free in the ocean helping scientist work out the currents.
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