SUMMARIZING

I. Competency/ies: The learner uses various techniques in summarizing a variety of academic texts
(CS_EN11/12A-EAPP-Ia-c-5)
The learner summarizes the content of an academic text (CS_EN11/12A-
EAPP-Ia-c-9)

II. Performance Standard: The learner produces a detailed abstract of information gathered from
the various academic texts.
III. Objectives:
The learner
1. determines the purpose of summarizing;
2. apply effective strategies in summarizing; and
3. summarize the content of a text.

TIME ALLOTMENT ACTIVITY

5minutes Motivation

Video Clip

'My dad's story'- Dream for My Child - MetLife.mp4

Processing Questions:
1. What is the video about?
2. Using only three sentences, tell the
plot of the video.

5 minutes Self-Audit
35 minutes Lesson Proper

Basics of Summarizing
What is Summarizing?
 Summarizing is often used to
determine the essential ideas in a
book, article, book chapter, an article
or parts of an article. These essential
ideas include the gist or main idea,
useful information. Or key words or
phrases that help you meet your
reading purpose. Summarizing is
generally done after reading.
However, it can be done as well
while reading a text.

Summarizing is an important skill because it

helps you
  Deepen your understanding of the
text
 Learn to identify relevant information
or key ideas
 Combine details or examples that
support the main idea/s
 Concentrate on the gist or main idea
and key words presented in the text;
and
 Capture the key ideas in the text and
put them together clearly and
concisely

What is NOT Summarizing?

You are NOT summarizing when you
 write down everything;
 write down ideas from the text word-
for-word;
 write down incoherent and irrelevant
ideas;
 write down ideas that are not stated
in the text; or
 write down a summary that has the
same length or is longer than the
original text.

Guidelines in Summarizing

1. Clarify your purpose before you read.

2. Read the text and understand the
meaning. Do not stop reading until you
understand the message conveyed by the
author. Locate the main idea of the text,
which can usually found either at the
beginning, in the middle, or in the end.
3. Select and underline or circle the key
ideas and phrases while reading; another
strategy is to annotate the text.
4. Write all the key ideas and phrases you
identified on the margins or on your notebook
in a bullet or outline form.
5. Without looking at the text, identify the
connections of these ideas and phrases
using a concept map.
6. List your ideas in sentence form in a
concept map.
7. Combine the sentences into a paragraph.
Use appropriate transitional devices to
improve cohesion.
8. Ensure that you do not copy a single
sentence from the original text.
9. Refrain from adding comments about the
text. Stick to the ideas it presents.
10. Edit the draft of your summary by
eliminating redundant ideas.
11. Compare your output with the original
text to ensure accuracy.
12. Record the details of the original source
(author’s name/s, fate of publication. title,
publisher, place of publication, and URL (if
online).
13. Format your summary properly. When
you combine your summaries in a paragraph,
use different formats to show variety in
writing.

Formats in Summarizing
1. Idea Heading Format
In this format, the summarized ideas
comes before the citation.

Example:
Benchmarking is a useful strategy that
has the potential to help public officials
improve the performance of local services
(Folz, 2004; Ammons, 2001). Once the
practice of a particular city is benchmarked, it
can be guidepost and the basis for the other
counterparts to improve its own.

2. Author Heading Format

In this format, the summarized idea comes
after the
citation. The author’s’ name/s is/are
connected by an
appropriate reporting verb.

Example:
The considerable number of users of FB
has leed educators to utilize FB for
communicating with their students (Grant,
2008; as cited in Donmus, 2010). The study
of Kabitan, Ahmad and Abidin , (2010),
shows that the students perceived FB as
on online environment more engaging. As
regards literacy, literacy, this notion reveals
that FB could be udes as a tool to aid
individuals execute a range of social acts
through social literacy implementation (ibid).
Blackstone and Hardwood (2012) suggest the
facilitative strength of Fb as it elicits greater
engagement on collaboration among
students.

3. Date Heading Format

In this format, the summarized idea comes
after the data when the material was
published.
 Example:
On the other hand, active participation of the
citizens in development contributes to a sound
and reasonable government decisions. In
their 2004 study on the impact of
participatory development approach, Irvin
and Standbury argue that participation can
be valuable to the participants and the
government in terms of the process and
outcomes of decision making.

HOTS Questions
1. Why do we need to summarize?
2. What is the importance of summarizing
in reading and analyzing academic
texts?
3. Is summarizing an essential reading
skill? Why? Why not?

Group Activity
Students will work with their seatmates. Using
meta cards, they will share their outputs to the
class.

Summarize the given texts

G1- an excerpt from an essay
G2 – introduction of a research
G3- a concept paper
G4- a news article
G5- an online reference

5 minutes Generalization / Synthesis

The teacher will call a student to wrap up the
lesson.

5 minutes Checking for Understanding

Write S if the statement describes good
summarizing and N if not.
1. Sean copied everything from the
book.
2. Tomas extracted the key ideas in the
text.
3. Red concentrated on the important
details.
4. Anita looked for key words and
phrases.
5. Sen simplified ideas.
6. Kai revised the main idea.
7. To add more information, Alexa
added her analysis and comments to
the ideas of the author.
8. Maria wrote down the general and
specific ideas of the text.
 9. Sean added some of his related
research to the information
presented in the text.
10. Lalaine extended the message of the
text and included some of her
interpretations.

5 Minutes Assignment
In three to five sentences, summarize the
given text. Cite your source properly.
(Refer to p.97 of the reference book).