1. paraphrasing
Say it in your OWN words!

2. What are some strategies I can use?
Copy! Plagiarize! Say it again!
Restate! Rephrase! Say it in your own words!

3. strategy one: Q & A The original… The paraphrase…
Why…
Where…
The original…
The paraphrase…
Female lions are better hunters than male lions and do most of the hunting for a pride.
Did you know that male lions are not the main hunters in their pride? In fact, the female lions are more skilled hunters so they do most of the hunting.
Did you know…
How does…
Should…

4. Strategy two: Add voice
The original…
The paraphrase…
The largest land based mammals on Earth are elephants.
If you’ve ever stood beside an elephant, you know they’re pretty big. You could even call them HUGE! On land, they are the most enormous animals you will find on this planet. How about that?
USE SYNONYMS!!!!!!!
LARGE
Big, great, huge, enormous, gigantic, giant, massive, immense

5. Strategy three: stretch-it-out
The original…
The paraphrase…
Sunlight can reach a depth of around 262 feet in the ocean.
The deeper you dive in the ocean, the darker the ocean becomes. Right? Well, light from the sun can actually reach as far as 262 feet below the surface of the water. Those are some powerful sun rays reaching 3,144 inches deep into the ocean! Wow!
What can I do to stretch this information further? Voice? Rearrange? Add more info? Infer? Recalculate? Explain?

6. Strategy four: flip that script
The original…
The paraphrase…
In 2007, heart disease was the leading cause of death in the USA.
The main cause of death for Americans was heart disease in the year 2007.

7. Strategy five: break it down
TAKE IT
APART
& explain
The original…
The paraphrase…
Televisions went on sale in the 1920’s. Early television was displayed in black and white. Although the technology was developed earlier, color television sets didn’t become widespread until the 1970’s.
When televisions first came out in the 1920’s, the shows were all in black and white. Later on, color technology was invented. It was still much later, the 1970’s, when color TV sets became more common. This means that people lived with 50 years of black and white TV before color TV was usual in American homes.
To explain….This means…To further explain…Let’s break this down…