How to Summarize a Story Using the SWBST Method

Khan Academy

This video introduces students to the "SWBST" (Someone, Wanted, But, So, Then) strategy, a mnemonic device designed to help learners effectively summarize fiction stories. The narrator acknowledges the difficulty of summarizing without rambling and presents this acronym as a "thought technology" to identify the most critical elements of a narrative: the main character, their goal, the conflict, the action taken to resolve it, and the resolution.