Summarizing

Summarizing is puttung a text in your own words in a shortened form.

.What to do first

1- Skim the text (table of contents/ Index)
2- Pick the main ideas ( LEL)
3-Find topic sentence (main idea of paragraph)


. Questions to ask your self
1. What happened? (where,when, why, how?)
2. What is involved?
3. What was the outcome/ consequence?
4. Is the essential piece of information?