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Introduction NCSCS RI.5.2 . . . summarize the text.

Lesson 2
Summarizing
Informational Texts
Identifying the main idea and key details in a text will
Learning Target help you summarize it. Summarizing a text helps you
better understand it.

Read When you tell your friends about a soccer game, you don’t want to bore them
with every detail. Instead, you tell only the most important events, leaving out the
parts that aren’t necessary for understanding what happened.
Similarly, when you summarize a text, you should use your own words to tell a short
but complete version of that text. Include only the main idea (the big idea) and the
key details that say more about the main idea.
Read the passage below. Identify what the passage is about.

LET’S PLAY FUTEBOL!


The most popular sport in Brazil is
futebol, also known as soccer. As of 2015,
the Brazilian national team has won the
World Cup more times than any other
country. Brazil is known for its many
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champion soccer players, including Pelé,


often called the best soccer player ever.
Most Brazilian cities, towns, schools, and
neighborhoods have local soccer teams. In
Brazil, children quickly turn any open space
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or patch of dirt into a soccer field.

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Theme: Cultural Mosaic Lesson 2

Think Consider what you’ve learned so far about summarizing a text. In the
main idea organizer below, add two key details from the passage “Let’s Play
Futebol!” Then use the organizer to complete the summary of the passage.

Main Idea
Soccer is the most popular sport in Brazil.

First Key Detail Second Key Detail Third Key Detail


The Brazilian national Brazil is known for Brazillian cities,
soccer team is a world its champion soccer towns, and
champion. players like Pele” neighborhoods all
have soccer teams.

Summary: Soccer is the most popular sport in Brazil.


For example, the Brazilian national soccer team is aworld champion. In
addition, Brazil is known for its champion soccer players like Pele’. Cities,
towns, schools and neighborhoods all have soccer teams.

Talk Share your main idea organizer and summary with a partner.
• What relationships do you see between your organizers and
summaries?
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• Do your second and third key details develop the main idea?
How do you know?
• Could any key details in the organizer be stated differently?
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Academic Talk
Use these words and phrases to talk about the text.
• main idea • key detail • summarize

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Modeled and Guided Instruction

Read Genre: Biography

A Portrait of
Frida Kahlo by Gene Erskine

1 In September 1925, a bus in Mexico City was in a terrible


accident. One passenger, an 18-year-old woman, was hurt so
badly that she had to stay in bed for three months. Looking for
a task to occupy her mind, she decided to paint pictures. This is
how Frida Kahlo, one of the most famous Mexican artists of the
20th century, began her career.
2 Kahlo produced more than 150 paintings during her life. Of
those, 55 were self-portraits, for which she is best known. In the
paintings, Kahlo has brown skin, black hair, thick eyebrows, and
a faint mustache. She often wears brightly colored traditional
Mexican blouses and skirts. She usually gazes confidently at the
viewer. Kahlo explained, “I paint myself because I am so often
alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
3 For Kahlo, a self-portrait was a way to communicate ideas.
For example, Kahlo’s injuries from the bus accident left her
in pain all her life. So, some of her self-portraits express this
discomfort. Others depict events in her life. For instance, in the
early 1930s, Kahlo lived in the United States. She was homesick,
so she painted herself standing between Mexican flowers and buildings on
one side and American factories and skyscrapers on the other. The painting
showed how she felt: torn between where she was living and where she
wanted to be. Not all of Kahlo’s self-portraits have such a clear message. Some
are like painted dreams, with Kahlo before tropical plants and surrounded
by spider monkeys, parrots, and cats. For Kahlo, a self-portrait could express
Close Reader Habits
whatever she wanted.
4 Frida Kahlo died in 1954. During her life, she had traveled the world, When you reread the
impressed famous artists, and taught painting to college students in Mexico. biography, underline key
As she told her students, “To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, details that develop the
but to do it well is very difficult.” Lovers of her art believe that Frida Kahlo main idea about Kahlo
and her art.
painted very well, indeed.

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Summarizing Informational Texts Lesson 2

Explore What is most important to know about Frida Kahlo and


her art?

Think Some texts state a


1 Complete the main idea organizer below. Include three key details that main idea directly.
Other texts let the
you underlined in the passage.
reader figure it out
from the details.

Main Idea
Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican Artis, is best known for her self-portraits.

First Key Detail Second Key Detail Third Key Detail

When Kahlo had to


She painted self- Some self-portraits
stay in bed after and
portraits because convey her physical
accident, she was
she was the subject discomfort and life
alone much of the
she knew best. events, but others are
time and began
like painted dreams.
painting.

Talk
2 Share your organizers. Do you agree about the main idea of the passage?
What about the key details? Make any changes to your organizers that
will help you write an accurate and complete summary.

Write HINT Link key


details to the main
3 Short Response Summarize what you learned about Frida Kahlo and idea by using phrases
her art. Include key details from the text in your summary. Use the space such as “for example”
provided on page 30 to write your answer. and “for instance.”

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Guided Practice

Read Genre: Biography

Cesar Chavez by José Hernandez

1 Cesar Estrada Chavez was an important labor leader. He


fought for the rights of migrant farm workers in the United
States. Chavez knew firsthand of the many hardships farm
workers faced. When Chavez was a young boy, his family lost
their farm during the Great Depression. The Chavez family
became migrant workers, toiling side by side for long hours in
the fields. At night, they slept in a tent or outside. Like other
migrant workers, they moved from farm to farm, following
the harvest seasons of the vineyards and fruit orchards in
California.
2 In 1962, Chavez and co-founder Dolores Huerta created
the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) to fight
for La Causa—the cause. By organizing farm workers into
a union, Chavez hoped to increase their wages. He also
hoped to improve working conditions and safety for farm
workers. Chavez strongly believed that this cause could be
achieved. In fact, his motto was “Yes, it can be done!”
3 Chavez believed in bringing about change in nonviolent ways. He fasted,
or went without eating, to bring attention to the poor treatment of farm
workers. He organized strikes and marches. He also organized boycotts, Close Reader Habits
which urged people to stop buying certain products. Two of Chavez’s most What did Chavez do to
effective boycotts were against grapes and lettuce. When people stopped improve conditions for
buying grapes and lettuce, the boycotts put economic pressure on the migrant workers? Reread
growers. These boycotts also brought attention to the plight of migrant the biography. Underline
farm workers. Because of Chavez’s dedicated efforts, migrant farm workers key details that show what
received better pay and working conditions. he did.

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Think Use what you learned from reading the biography to respond to the
following questions.

1 Which statement is most important to include in a summary of the


A summary of a
passage “Cesar Chavez”?
biography includes
A Like other migrant workers, Chavez moved from farm to farm. only key details of a
B The Chavez family often slept in a tent or outdoors at night. person’s life. To decide
which details to use,
C “Yes, it can be done!” was Chavez’s motto.
choose the ones that
D Chavez brought about change in nonviolent ways. develop the main idea
of the biography.
2 Select the two sentences that should be included in a summary of
paragraph 1.
A Chavez was an important labor leader.
B Chavez had a difficult childhood.
C As a boy, Chavez often slept in a tent or outside.
D The Chavez family followed the harvest seasons in California.
E Chavez fought for the rights of farm workers.
F Chavez worked hard after his family lost their farm.

3 Which is most important to put in a summary of how Chavez helped


others?
A “. . . his family lost their farm. . . .”
B “. . . they moved from farm to farm. . . .”
C “. . . strongly believed that this cause could be achieved.”
D “. . . migrant farm workers received better pay. . . .”

Talk
4 What is the main idea of the passage? What key details develop that
main idea? Use the organizer on page 31 to gather your information.

Write
HINT Make sure
5 Short Response Summarize the passage. Include key details from your you have figured out
organizer in your summary. Use the space provided on page 31 to write the main idea of the
your answer. whole passage.

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Modeled and Guided Instruction

Write Use the space below to write your answer to the


question on page 27.

A Portrait of

3
Frida Kahlo
Short Response Summarize what you learned about Frida Kahlo
HINT Link key
details to the main
idea by using phrases
such as “for example”
and “for instance.”
and her art. Include key details from the text in your summary.

Check Your Writing


Did you read the prompt carefully?
Did you put the prompt in your own words?
Don’t forget to Did you use the best evidence from the text to support your ideas?
check your writing.
Are your ideas clearly organized?
Did you write in clear and complete sentences?
Did you check your spelling and punctuation?

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