Summary and Main Idea Worksheet 2
Directions: Read each passage and on a separate sheet of paper...
1. Create a title for the passage related to the main idea.
2. Accurately summarize the text.
3. Your summary must describe all key ideas from the text.
4. Do not include opinions or personal info in your summary.
5. Highlight or underline key ideas in each passage.
What's dressed in all black, practices stealth, and is a master of
espionage, sabotage, and assassination? You guessed it: it's a ninja!
Perhaps the only thing more elusive than a ninja is the source of the word ninja. In China ninja are more often
referred to as shinobi. The Chinese word shinobi, short for shinobi-no-mono, means "to steal away." The word
shinobi appears in Chinese poems as far back as the eighth century. So how did this word become ninja? Some
believe that during the Edo period in Japan, the word shinobi-no-mono was appropriated and transformed to the very
similar word ninja. This probably happened because it was a lot quicker and easier to just say ninja. It is difficult to
see how such a transformation could have occurred when we look at the words using our alphabet, but if you look at
the kanji representing these words, it may make more sense to you. This is how you write shinobi-no-mono in
Chinese: . And this is how you write ninja: . Now do you see the similarities?
1. Main idea related title for the passage:
Example Answer: The Mysterious Origin of the Word Ninja
Directions: Read each passage and on a separate sheet of paper...
1. Create a title for the passage related to the main idea.
2. Accurately summarize the text.
3. Your summary must describe all key ideas from the text.
4. Do not include opinions or personal info in your summary.
5. Highlight or underline key ideas in each passage.
What's dressed in all black, practices stealth, and is a master of
espionage, sabotage, and assassination? You guessed it: it's a ninja!
Perhaps the only thing more elusive than a ninja is the source of the word ninja. In China ninja are more often
referred to as shinobi. The Chinese word shinobi, short for shinobi-no-mono, means "to steal away." The word
shinobi appears in Chinese poems as far back as the eighth century. So how did this word become ninja? Some
believe that during the Edo period in Japan, the word shinobi-no-mono was appropriated and transformed to the very
similar word ninja. This probably happened because it was a lot quicker and easier to just say ninja. It is difficult to
see how such a transformation could have occurred when we look at the words using our alphabet, but if you look at
the kanji representing these words, it may make more sense to you. This is how you write shinobi-no-mono in
Chinese: . And this is how you write ninja: . Now do you see the similarities?
1. Main idea related title for the passage:
Example Answer: The Mysterious Origin of the Word Ninja
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