Workshop+4+Exository+Summary

Expository summary is a short statement that tells only the most important ideas about a topic.
 * When students tell friends what they did over the weekend, they are creating a type of summary.

Expository summaries need to:  •be presented in a logical order  •begin with a topic sentence that tells the title and the author of the work that is being summarized  •retell important information in the writer’s own words.

Here is an example of __In the Line of Fire__:
 * = Book Title/Author ||
 * = Main Idea ||
 * = Summary ||
 * = Conclusion ||

Book Title/Author: In the Line of Fire; by Tod Olson Main Idea: The horrors of war are shown through a group of fictional soldiers who fought on D-Day. Summary: This book is a historical fiction about D-Day, an important battle during World War II. Taber, an American soldier, and his friends Tim and Jake are training for D-Day. On June 6, 1944, they land in France with many thousands of American, British, and Russian soldiers. Thousands die, but the battle is successful. Conclusion: Even when soldiers believe in the cause they fight for, war is a shocking and horrifying experience.