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Summarizing Informational Text Practice

📝 Worksheet medium ⏱️ 15 minutes 8 problems
Summarizing Informational Text Practice
Grade 3 English Language Arts LearnCrux.com
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Directions
  • Fill in each blank carefully.
  • Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
  • Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. A summary tells the most __ ideas in a text.
2. Which belongs in a summary?
3. Readers should leave out __ details that do not support the main idea.
4. Which is best for a summary?
5. A summary should be shorter than the original __.
6. Why should a summary include key details?
7. Which sentence should stay out of a summary?
8. A summary should focus on the main __.
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. important
2. The main idea and key details
3. minor
4. Use your own words
5. text
6. to support the main idea
7. I think this article was amazing.
8. idea

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