Summarise a Story
Title: The Dog and it’s reflection
Author:
Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:
| Who?
The Butcher and the dog |
| What?
The butcher gave the dog a bone and then rushed off happily. |
| When? During one evening |
| Where? At the butcher, at the narrow footbridge and near the river |
| Why? He dropped his bone because he saw his reflection and mistook it for another dog with a bigger bone |
| How? It is very foolish to be greedy |
Summarise the text in 25 words:
| The | dog | saw | his | own |
| reflection | with | a | bigger | bone |
| So | he | dropped | his | bone, |
| jumped | in | the | river | and |
| realised | he | lost | his | bone. |
In reading we were summarizing the main ideas and exploring more about the Moral.
The Moral was “It is foolish to be greedy” The meaning : If your greedy you could lose everything you already had