<p> Summarization</p><p>When you summarize a story, you retell it in a much shorter form. A summary tells the main idea of something, but it doesn't give all the details found in the original story. Summaries may be as short as a sentence or as long as a few sentences. They retell the main events of a story in the order that they happen.</p><p>Story Once upon a time a baby parrot sat alone in the bottom of a big basket. It lived at the pet store. It was waiting for someone to come along and take it home as a pet. At the same time, Mrs. Jackson was looking for a companion to fill her empty nest. Her son had left home for college, and she was pretty sure he was really gone for good! Mrs. Jackson saw an ad in the newspaper saying, "Darling baby parrots for sale." She went to visit the pet store the next day. Mrs. Jackson saw many parrots that day, but the baby all alone in the big basket was the one she wanted! When the parrot had hatched nine weeks earlier, it had four brothers and sisters! Now it was the only one of them without a new home. Mrs. Jackson took out her checkbook and paid the store owner for the baby. She put it in a plastic carrying case. She hurried home to show her friends her new baby bird!</p><p>Summary of Story A baby parrot at a pet store was lonely. Mrs. Jackson was also lonely, so she went to the pet store and bought the baby parrot to keep her company. </p>