Summarizing and Paraphrasing Flashcards
Grade 4 · English · Flashcards
Review key vocabulary and concepts for summarizing texts and paraphrasing ideas in your own words.
Flashcards
- Summary
- A brief restatement of the most important ideas from a text, written in your own words
- Paraphrase
- A restatement of a passage in your own words that is about the same length as the original
- Main idea
- The most important point or central message of a text
- Key details
- Important facts and examples that support the main idea and belong in a summary
- Minor details
- Small, specific facts that are NOT important enough to include in a summary
- Own words
- Expressing an idea using different vocabulary and sentence structure from the original
- Plagiarism
- Copying someone else's words or ideas without giving them credit
- Objective summary
- A summary that sticks to the facts without adding the reader's opinion
- Read-cover-write-check
- A strategy: read the passage, cover it, write from memory, then check for accuracy
- Condense
- To make shorter by keeping only the most important information
- Restate
- To say the same thing in a different way using your own words
- Fiction summary
- Includes the main characters, setting, conflict, and resolution — not every event
- Nonfiction summary
- Includes the topic, main idea, and most important supporting details from the text
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