Thursday 10 August 2017

Duck Overboard Summary

Summarising the Main Idea


L.I. To look for keywords and phrases


LI:To identify the main ideas in the text.
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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

Keywords from sub headings


New words I need to look up

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

What?  A stupendous storm washed three containers off a ship.
Where? Hong Kong to Tacoma, Washington in the United States.

When?  January 1992
Who? Plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs
Why? One container spilled its contents into the sea.
How? A stupendous storm

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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