Pagewood Public School

Learning for Life

Telephone02 9316 9313

Emailpagewood-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Summarising

Learners identify and accumulate the most important ideas and restate them in their own words.

Some helpful questions/statements to ask your child:

  • What things will help you summarise this text – list, mind map, note taking, annotations?
  • What are the main ideas and significant details from the reading/viewing/listening?
  • If you were to tell another person about the text read/viewed/heard in a few sentences, what would you tell them?
  • What is the main theme? How is it connected to the world beyond the text?
  • In what significant ways does this text relate to/elaborate on the topic that you have been investigating?
  • Can you create a metaphor for the text that you have read?