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Monday, 7 August 2017

Summarising the main 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
Overboard
Keywords from sub headings
Duck
New words I need to look up
undoubtedly
invaluable

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

What?In January 1992 a stupendous storm washed three containers off a ship.

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

When? in 1992
Who? Mr Ebbesmeyer,Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Why? overboard, the sea water corroded the card-packaging and the plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free and began to float.

How? One container spilled its contents into the sea.

Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 25 words or less.


January
Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Mr Ebbesmeyer
Overboard
Turtles
Ducks
Frogs
1992
Stupendous
Corroded
Packaging
Washington
Tacoma
Hong Kong
United states


Container
Green
Float
Spilled
Contents

Sea
Water
Broke
Card
Storm
LI:To Identify the main idea's in the text
This is my Reading work for today it is a summarising the main idea int he text.I also had to put in 25 words and the 5W's and the H. 


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