Read Like This: Central Ideas and Supporting Details in Texts

Review the central ideas from the story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Refer to your notes and the story to identify one or more key details to support the central ideas. Use the central ideas and key details to write a summary.

As you draft your summary, review this checklist. If you are writing a good summary, you will answer “yes” to all of these questions:

• Does it state the overall central idea for the text?
• Does it include the most important central ideas from the different sections in the text?
• Do all of the central ideas included in the summary support the overall central idea?
• Does it include the most important key details that support one or more of the central ideas?
• Does it contain only information from the text?
• Are all the sentences written in your own words?

Print a copy and submit it to your teacher for grading.