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Making Generalization and Summarizing Various Text Types Based On Elements

The document discusses different methods for summarizing texts, including generalization, identifying key details, and ignoring irrelevant information. It defines generalization as a broad statement drawn from facts about a topic that is logical and supported by evidence. When making generalizations, one should gather information, identify relationships among facts, and make a statement consistent with most supporting facts. Summarizing techniques include scanning to find key details quickly and skimming to note the most important points by identifying who, what, when, where, why and how details.

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Making Generalization and Summarizing Various Text Types Based On Elements

The document discusses different methods for summarizing texts, including generalization, identifying key details, and ignoring irrelevant information. It defines generalization as a broad statement drawn from facts about a topic that is logical and supported by evidence. When making generalizations, one should gather information, identify relationships among facts, and make a statement consistent with most supporting facts. Summarizing techniques include scanning to find key details quickly and skimming to note the most important points by identifying who, what, when, where, why and how details.

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Making Generalization and

Summarizing Various Text


Types based on Elements
English 5
Week 4
Summarizing teaches students how to recognize the
most important ideas in the text, how to ignore
irrelevant information and how to integrate the central
ideas in a meaningful way.

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A generalization is a broad statement drawn from a
group of facts about a topic. It must be supported by
evidence that is logical and factual. Learning to make
generalizations will help you develop conclusions and
identify trends

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In making generalizations we may use the following
guidelines:
1. Gather information.
2. Identify relationships among facts.
3. Make a generalization that states a relationship and
is consistent with most of the supporting facts.

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A clue word such as all, most, always, usually, or
generally signals that an author is making
generalization.

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A summary restates only the main points of a text
without giving examples or details such as dates,
numbers or statistics. When you summarize, you keep
in mind the answers to the (5) Wh’s and How
questions.
Texts are written for a variety of purposes, using
different forms and standards of composition. These
forms of writing are known as text type.

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There are two main text types, factual and literary.
1.Factual text types include factual description,
recount, or persuasive.
2.Literary text types include poetry, narrative or
personal response

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Summary chart to organize ideas like in Story Grammar.

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Another way of summarizing a text is through scanning and
skimming. Scanning is a technique of quick reading that helps
you find specific details or relevant information. When you scan
you only find the keywords needed to answer the questions.
Here are the tips on how are you going to do this:
* look for the key information
* look at each paragraph, locate the topic sentence, the first one
and decide what the main point is
* list the key points and include only the main ideas of the text.

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Skimming is letting your eyes and mind skim over the text
quickly as to note the most important points. What do you do
when you skim?
* Let your eyes travel down the page lightly but rapidly.
* Find the key words that tell who, what, when, where, why and
how.
* Keep in mind that the first sentence in a paragraph or the first
paragraph of an article usually contains the important details that
give the general idea

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