Practise selecting and rewriting points to time. Attempt each in your own words before revealing our notes. All tasks and passages are our own original material.
1These tasks use the Saturday market passage on our summary writing annotated model page, linked below. Write a one-sentence summary of why the market declined, using no more than 20 words and none of the passage's exact phrases.
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Plan: Pick the two strongest reasons (retail park pull; younger families' preference). Combine, rephrase, count words.
Model opening: Shoppers moved to a new out-of-town shopping centre that offered easier parking, shelter and fixed prices.
Checklist:
A trial lesson can start from your child's attempt at Summary writing practice tasks, with feedback from an experienced teacher.
- Own words, no lifted phrases
- Points not examples
- Within the word limit
- Reads as one clear sentence
2Using the same market passage, list the effects of the decline in three short bullet points, each in your own words.
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Plan: Effects only: unsold stock, retirements, no new traders, market shrank and quietened. Group into three.
Model opening: Traders were left with unsold produce; older sellers retired; few new traders replaced them.
Checklist:
- Effects, not reasons
- Grouped, not repeated
- Rephrased throughout
See the worked annotated model response for summary writing, or the method in our summary writing skills guide.