Duck overbored

Summarising the Main Idea

L.I. To look for keywords and phrases

Good readers notice key words.  Here are some clues to help you find key words:

• Key words are directly connected to the topic
• the title and the text
• A key word helps you to remember an important idea
Use this table to help you summarise the main ideas in a text in your own words.  It is important that you use your own words to show your understanding and to avoid plagiarism.  If you don’t know what some words mean, look them up.



Keywords from the title Duck overbored

Keywords from sub headings

New words I need to look up is durable

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:



What? stupendous storm washed three containers off a ship.

Where? Hong Kong to Tacoma, Washington in the United States.

When? 1992 One container spilled its contents into the sea

Who? plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs

Why? One container spilled its contents into the sea.

How? stupendous storm



Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less.
1. Storm
2. Bath toys
3. yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free and began to float.
4. Since then the toys have spread out in many different directions. Some floating over the site where the Titanic sank.


• L.I. To look for keywords and phrases.

  I learnt that there are many ways to summarize a story in your point of view.I learnt this by doing it in the activity above we had to skim and scam throughout the hole article and we had to copy and past all the information from the article to the activity.