Grade 5 · Comprehension: Understanding and Responding to Texts · Summaries and Text Analysis
Summarize and Support a Conclusion
A summary preserves the text's central meaning. A conclusion goes one step further by explaining what the evidence supports.
The big idea
Relevant evidence earns its place
A strong summary names the main idea, orders only the details needed to understand it, and avoids unrelated examples or personal opinions.
Work it through
Build an evidence chain
- 1. State the main idea in one sentence.
- 2. Choose two or three details that directly support it.
- 3. Put events or causes in a logical sequence.
- 4. Draw a conclusion and cite the details that make it reasonable.