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When you summarize, you briefly restate or describe the main
characters and most important events in a story.
Write a summary of each passage on the lines provided.
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Practice
Comprehension:
Summarize
Ana Rosa sat down on her usual branch. Then she stared at the sea. She
looked so hard and for so long that its blueness fi lled up her eyeballs, and she
had to blink a lot so she wouldn’t go blind.
The evening came and the sea’s blueness turned gray. She watched and
waited. Her stomach made grumbling noises but she muffl ed them with
her hand.
Then, just as she began to think that maybe she had imagined it after all,
she saw a splash of water rise up until it was high in the air.
Then everyone watched Ana Rosa and waited. She stood there trembling,
holding that notebook with her story. She knew right then that this was it. The
whole world would fi nd out about her.
She stopped thinking. She just started to read. She read and read until she
turned to the last page of the story. There the other sea creatures invite the
lonely sea monster to a big underwater fi esta.
The Gri Gri Tree • Grade 5/Unit 5
At Home: Read a short story or newspaper article.
Summarize what you read in three sentences or less.
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