1. Writing a Summary with a IVF Topic Sentence
How to Write a Summary
Writing a Summary with a IVF Topic Sentence

2. What is a summary?
A shortened version of a text that highlights its key points.
Can be written for both fiction and non-fiction pieces.
Contains an IVF topic sentence.

4. IVF Topic Sentence Step 1
Identify the item you
will be summarizing.
State what form of literature the reading is (i.e. short story, article)
State the name of the reading
State the author of the reading

5. IVF Topic Sentence Step 2 Use an active verb to help you organize.
Tells
Lists
Provides
Describes
Explains
Challenges
Compares
Gives
Shows
Presents
Showcases
Discusses

6. IVF Topic Sentence Step 3
Finish your thought.
Answer what the article or story is about in a general phrase. No specifics.
State the main point of the article or story.
Don’t give away the ending of the article or story.

7. IVF Topic Sentence Example 1
Identify the item: The story “Rikki-tiki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling
Pick an active verb: tells
Finish your thought: how a young mongoose protects his family and friends from two deadly cobras.
The story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling tells how a young mongoose protects his family and friends from two deadly cobras.

8. IVF Topic Sentence Example 2
Identify the item: “Chapter Five” in my science book
Pick an active verb: explains
Finish your thought: how a simple telegraph works.
“Chapter Five” in my science book explains how a simple telegraph works.

9. IVF Topic Sentence Example 3
Identify the item: The poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pick an active verb: describes
Finish your thought: Paul Revere’s ride to warn the colonists about the British.
The poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes Paul Revere’s ride to warn the colonists about the British.

10. IVF Topic Sentence Practice
--Form
--Title
--Author’s Name
--Pick an active
verb
--Finish your thought
-- Short Story
--”7th Grade”
--Gary Soto
--tells
--shows
--describes
Write complete sentence:

11. “Eleanor Roosevelt” IVF Topic Sentence
--Form
--Title
--Author’s
Name
--Pick an active
verb
--Finish your thought
Write a complete sentence:

12. “A Crush” IVF Topic Sentence
Identify it
--Form
--Title
--Author
Verb it
Finish your thought
Write a complete sentence:

13. Highlighting As you read your article…
Highlight the article’s name, author, and date of publication
Highlight all major headings
Highlight facts that support the title and main idea of the article

14. Fact Outline
Directly transfer the facts of the article or story to a fact outline (8-12 facts).
You can use bullet points, hyphens, or numbers to organize your fact outline.

15. Sample Fact Outline for “A Crush”
Flowers are being left in front of Stan’s Hardware store, so people think someone has a crush on an employee there.
Dick Wilcox is married, so everyone thinks the flowers are for Dolores.
Dolores…

16. Sample Sample Pre-write with 3 step format I V F Complete Sentence:
Fact Outline
Include 8-12 statements!

17. Writing your Summary
Rewrite your IVF Topic Sentence (it is first sentence of your summary)
Rewrite all of the facts in sequential order from your fact outline in complete sentences in your own words! 
Remember: A summary is a comprehensive and usually brief writing of previously stated facts or statements.

18. Summary Transitions After A ___ later During Finally Later While
Next Some time later That day Then The next _____
When