READING STRATEGY: SUMMARISING
5 Easy Summarising Strategies for Reading
Summarising means identifying the main idea and most important facts, then writing a brief overview that includes only those key ideas and details. Summarising is a vital skill for students to learn, but many students find it difficult to pick out the important facts without providing too much detail.
A good summary is short and to the point. The following easy summarising strategies will help you choose the correct details from the text and write about them clearly and concisely.
Somebody Wanted But So Then
“Somebody Wanted But So Then” is an excellent summarising strategy for stories. Each word represents a key question related to the story's essential elements:
- Somebody: Who is the story about?
- Wanted: What does the main character want?
- But: Identify a problem that the main character encountered.
- So: How does the main character solve the problem?
- Then: Tell how the story ends.
Here is an example of this strategy in action:
- Somebody: Little Red Riding Hood
- Wanted: She wanted to take cookies to her sick grandmother.
- But: She encountered a wolf pretending to be her grandmother.
- So: She ran away, crying for help.
- Then: A woodsman heard her and saved her from the wolf.
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