English resources/Summary writing/Keep five
Keep five words
Only words from the sentence. Order can change. The event still has to stand.
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How to run this
Two minutes. Five boxes. Then a model five. Then play today's, which is a new sentence.
Why five
A one-sentence summary can hide in glue. Five words cannot. If the event is gone, you kept the wrong five.
This is the live version of the drill: today's Long Story Short. The worksheets are old sentences, for a room with no phones.
Three, filled in
Rex, a wobbly four-month-old kitten who never could walk, gets in the wheelchair Michael Hawley built him from Lego.
A model five
wobblykittengetsLegowheelchair
After a call from an Ohio church, a friendly pygmy goat rode to the county fair in the back seat of a police cruiser.
A model five
pygmygoatrodepolicecruiser
A Seattle dog called Eclipse rode the bus alone to the park, a few stops off, in a red harness, with her own pass on her collar.
A model five
Seattledogrodebusalone
Print all twelve on the worksheet page.
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