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Identify the central idea, keep only essential details, and draft a concise summary in your own words.
What each box is asking for
Identify the central idea, keep only essential details, and draft a concise summary in your own words. Here is what each part of this organizer expects.
Text / Section
What are you summarizing?
Central Idea / Theme
What is the text mostly about or trying to show?
Essential Detail 1
Keep a detail the reader needs to understand the central idea.
Essential Detail 2
Keep another essential detail; leave out minor examples.
Essential Detail 3
Use only if it materially improves the summary.
Draft Summary
Write a concise summary in your own words.
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Other ways to use this organizer
The Summary Graphic Organizer page has the blank PDF in US Letter and A4, a completed example you can compare with your own page, and teaching notes for using it with students.