Summarising
English: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 1.5.11
Summary of Texts
You can be asked to summarise what happens in a piece of text. To summarise something, you need to say what has happened in the text using fewer words.
Recognising a summary question
- 'Which of the following words/sentences best summarises what happens in paragraph two?'
- A question like this is asking you to summarise.
Summary questions
- A question might also give us a set of summary statements.
- The question will ask you to number them in the correct order according to the text.
Test yourself on Summarising
What is a summary of a text?
Which of the following questions is asking you to summarise?