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Q8 - Staying with Uncle Stephen

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6.6D - The student is expected to paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.

  • Summarizing text is a specific skill that students use when they reduce information to its main ideas and fundamental points. Students may summarize a piece of writing by identifying its components and determining the correct order in which those components appear in the text. For example, students who are summarizing a story read in class should be able to express the main idea conveyed by the author, the details that support it, and the order of events throughout the text

6.6D - The student is expected to paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.

  • Summarizing text is a specific skill that students use when they reduce information to its main ideas and fundamental points. Students may summarize a piece of writing by identifying its components and determining the correct order in which those components appear in the text. For example, students who are summarizing a story read in class should be able to express the main idea conveyed by the author, the details that support it, and the order of events throughout the text
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Which answer did you pick for this question?

8. What is the best summary of the story?

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Why did you chose that answer?

Staying with Uncle Stephen (full story)

Test Taking Tips

This question requires you to determine:
  • who the most important characters are,
  • what the conflict is,
  • what the major events are,
  • how the conflict is resolved,
  • and how the main character changes and/or what the main character learns.
It will NOT have unimportant details or events (things you could cut from the story and still have the story), nor will it leave out major events.

Read the notes you took on your plot graphic organizer. These will help you determine the major events.

When analyzing the answer choices, remind yourself how many paragraphs the story has, then determine which paragraphs each choice covers. For example:

Brody has to stay with his Uncle Stephen, (paragraph 1) and he misses his friends. Brody talks to Marisa and Jeffrey and discovers that they are doing activities that he typically enjoys. (paragraphs 2-9) Later Brody goes hiking with Uncle Stephen, (paragraphs 11-15) and then he works on a poem for his homework assignment. (paragraph 16) When he finishes, Brody and Uncle Stephen go fishing. (paragraph 20)

This answer choice is incorrect, because it contains unimportant details about his phone conversations and does not include how the conflict is resolved or what Brody learns.
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Which answer should you have chosen?

8. What is the best summary of the story?

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What will you do differently next time?

After you submit, read the answer choice explanations. In your Reading Journal, write down why the answer choice you originally chose was wrong, and why the correct answer is right.