Learning to Summarise

We've all read an article on Kiwikidsnews about Animal Rights in Switzerland.

We are all learning to summarise to help us with our researching skills.

WALT: Summarise using key words. 

SC: We can look for important key words in the text to help us summarise

We can summarise the main ideas in the text in our own words

First we looked out for the key words or topic words.  We wrote them on the whiteboard and then used those to make 3 summary sentences.  We talked about needing to include some of the 'Ws', who, where, when and why?

This is what it looks like:

We had some discussion about how we can turn our key words back into sentences to summarise the main article; and this is what we came up with.

In Switzerland, in 2008, the government made it illegal to own only one goldfish.  They think it is cruel; fish need companions because they live in schools.  These laws protect animal rights, including cats, parrots and other pets.  

Take a look at the article here and see how you think we did? 

http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/owning-just-1-pet-goldfish-illegal-switzerland/