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SUMMARIZ
ING TEXT ? Ayu Amelia Azhari
Herdiyanto Aldino
B
Dayang Bella C V
Purnama Said
Saiful Bahri
Ryska Fadini A K
Siti Khadijah A J
Bella Sapriliani
 Welcome!
Today we are going to use
art to practice
summarizing.
Are you ready?
A Summarizing Lesson
 When readers summarize,
they capture only the most
important parts of the text.
What is going
on in this
photograph?

What
information
needs to be
included in a
summary?
Summarize
what this
painting is
about.
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 Wild Dogs Rampage!
Read this text Game Disrupted
excerpt closely.
Unruly dogs plagued Snort City
What is going on again yesterday, as one of the
in it? animals broke up a double play
and ran away with the baseball
during a Snort City Rabbits game
at Morley Field. The episode
capped a week of problems that
began on Tuesday when a pack of
the rambunctious creatures broke
up the annual Fishin’ Derby on
Blat Lake. (p. 8)
Let’s read this text
“Let’s keep flying even though it’s getting
excerpt closely light,” said Twilight, the immense Great Gray
and then Owl that flew downwind of Soren. “We’re
summarize it getting nearer. I just feel it.”
together. It was to the Sea of Hoolemere they flew, and
in the middle of the sea was an island and on
that island there was a tree called the Great
Ga’Hoole tree and in this tree there was an
order of owls. It was said that these owls
would rise each night into the blackness and
perform noble deeds. The universe of owls
was desperately in need of such deeds. For
with its many kingdoms it was about to be
destroyed by terrible evil. (pp. 1-2)
 The economy of the Classic Maya
involved the exchange of many items
intended for everyday use. Some, such
as pottery, basketry, textiles, dyes and
pigments, and agricultural products,
were sold locally in open plazas on
t his
e a d p t specially scheduled market days. Other
R c e r articles of trade that appeared in local
e x
text ly and markets came from distant sources. (p.
o s e e - 86-87)
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 Remember!
When readers summarize,
they capture only the most
important parts of the text.
 Why use s
ummarizin
It helps stu g?
dents learn
essential id to determi
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details tha nsolidate i
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It enables hem.
students to
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students ho bering.
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ing.
THANK YOU