Summarising

We learnt that summarising is a reading strategy that uses the main ideas to tell a brief description of a text.


We were looking at summarising three different articles about possums.

First, we skimmed and scanned through the text for keywords and general information. We wrote down the information and keywords we found for each text.

Then, after finding all the general ideas of the text, we used the keywords and information to create a short summary.

We repeated this process with the other two possum articles.

After that, we used the information from all three summaries and made an overall summary that talked about the information from all three possum articles.

We found this activity challenging and enjoyed writing the summaries. What we could focus on doing better is finding keywords that link to the text.

LI: to summarise information from a range of texts.