Ducks overboard

Summarising the Main Idea

Good readers notice key words.  Here are some clues to help you find key words:

• Key words are directly connected to the topic
• Key words are often repeated in the title and the text
• A key word helps you to remember an important idea

Use this table to help you summaries the main ideas in a text in your own words.  It is important that you use your own words to show your understanding and to avoid plagiarism.  If you don’t know what some words mean, look them up.

Keywords from the title Duck Overboard

Keywords from subheadings

New words I need to look up durable

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

What? Bath toys

Where? Indonesia, Australia, Japan, South America and North America ,Great Britain, sea.

When? In January 1992

Who?Curtis Ebbesmeyer , Scientist

Why? stupendous storm

How? They were dragged by the currents

Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less. January 1992 bath toys were dragged by currents to  Indonesia, Australia, Japan, South America and North America ,Great Britain. Curtis Ebbesmeyer , Scientist studied the ducks.

L.I. To look for keywords and phrases.

I learnt that there are many ways to summarize a story in your point of view.I learnt this by doing it in the activity above we had to skim and scam throughout the hole article and we had to copy and past all the information from the article to the activity.