Identifying a summary 

Practice for the communicative skill of reading, subskill identifying a summary.

The PTE Academic item types where this subskill is tested are

• Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer
• Reading: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
• Listening: Highlight correct summary

Click on the link below for more information on the resource	Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource
Academic Connections 1, Academic Connections 2, Academic Connections 3, Academic Connections 4	recognizing a summary statements and conclusions
Academic Encounters: Human Behavior:	summarizing important information
Academic Encounters: Life in Society:	summarizing from topic sentences
Creating Meaning:	synthesizing information from texts
Inside Reading 2, Inside Reading 3, Inside Reading 4:	outlining and summarizing key information
New Directions:	summarizing and paraphrasing key information
New Headway Academic Skills 3:	identifying, organizing and re-writing main ideas
NorthStar Reading and Writing 3:	synthesizing important details in a text
NorthStar Reading and Writing 4:	summarizing, paraphrasing, and restating main ideas
NorthStar Reading and Writing 5:	summarizing main ideas, restating arguments in a text
Select Readings Pre-Intermediate:	summarizing from texts
Strategic Reading 1:	summarizing and restating important information