A Summary is a condensed version of article or a book. Summaries are usually a paragraph long depending on the length of the work being condensed.

Summarizing Activity helps students learn to determine key ideas and consolidate important details that support them. Summarizing worksheets enables students to focus on keywords and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering. It teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more brief understanding.