Summarise Information from a Story

In this activity, we are going to become summarising superstars!

 

To summarise, we pick out key points that are really important.

 

If someone asked me to summarise my day, I wouldn’t tell them every single bit of food I ate and what time I did everything.

I’d say something like this:

 

I learnt all about the Solar System and went bowling.

 

 

I left out the extra information like the names of all the planets in the Solar System and what my score was in bowling.

 

Can you summarise your day so far in no more than 10 words?

 

Summary questions often ask us to order events in a text.

 

Before brushing his teeth, Drew ate his breakfast then went to drama club.

 

 

Here are the three main events from this sentence.  

 

Which order do these three events go in? 

 

Drew brushed his teeth.
Drew went to drama club.
Drew ate breakfast.

 

Here are the correct answers. Did you get the same?

 

Drew brushed his teeth.	2
Drew went to drama club.	3
Drew ate breakfast.	1

 

Sometimes, summarising questions ask us to sum up the main idea in one sentence.

 

What was the main event in the sentence about Drew?

 

It was him going to drama club.

Brushing his teeth and eating breakfast aren’t as important as they happen every day.

 

In this activity, we will use our summarising skills to summarise and order main events from texts.

 

Let's get started!