Instruction Summarizing and Drawing Conclusions

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2 Timelines
A timeline is a text feature that displays events chronologically, or in the

in which they occurred.

A timeline includes: A timeline does not include:

• Events that are to • Events out of sequence

a specific topic or occurrence

• Events within a specific period of

time

• on which the events

occur

• A presentation

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4 Features of a Timeline

1937–

Reber studied the skies.

1900 1950 2000

1905
Einstein The term Scientists
published “black holes” made more
ideas on time became used discoveries
and space. in scientific about black
groups. holes.

This has several that are important to the discovery

and understanding of black holes.

The beginning and dates indicate the timespan covered by

the timeline.

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7 Drawing Conclusions

To draw a conclusion, analyze and develop an idea that helps you

understand a concept.

Detail Detail Detail

9 Drawing a Conclusion
To draw a conclusion:

• the details in the text.

• determine what you know about the topic.

• the details to what you know.

What I What I

“Nothing was visible When I am in a dark Light is necessary for

in the pitch-black room, I cannot see us to see things.
darkness.” objects.

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2 Summarizing
When you summarize, you use your own words to state the central ideas of a

text. A summary includes only the most information and

details and is .

idea Central idea Central idea

4 Finding a Central Idea

Albert Einstein didn’t mean to turn the universe

To find a idea:
upside-down on everyone. He didn’t plan on
leading others to discover black holes. At first,
• See if the idea is stated
all he set out to do was think about motion,
in the text. along with a few other related ideas. But almost
before he knew it, he had suddenly made our
• Look for that dependable old universe seem strange and new.

–A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole,

seem . Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano

• Analyze the details to see

what they have in common.

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6 Developing a Summary
Underline the important details and phrases that can be used in a summary.

The dense singularity at a black hole’s center would be an extremely tiny but extremely
heavy object placed on the blanket. Picture the supernova leftovers – the material that
originally forms a black hole – as a peanut with all of the elephants in the world stuffed into
it. Imagine placing that tremendously dense, elephant-stuffed peanut on a huge blanket. The
blanket stretches and stretches, pulling out of shape. It forms not a shallow dimple in the
blanket, but a steep well. A steep well that’s really a lot like . . .

. . . a hole!

–A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole,

Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano

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How can readers identify important ideas within a text?
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Answer

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