1. In Your Own Words…
PARAPHRASING

2. By the End, You will Know…
How to put a passage in your own words without changing the meaning
The definition of Paraphrasing
How to find the main idea of the text in order to paraphrase it

3. What is Paraphrasing??? PARAPHRASING IS…
A rewriting of text in your own words
Used to clarify meaning
Used to shorten a longer statement but keeps the main ideas
You may want to highlight the words, re-writing, clarify and shorten and keeps. These seem like keys words in the definition.

4. So How Do We Do It? Read the passage carefully
Decide the main ideas of the passage
Highlight important words or phrases
Put the main points in your own words
PARAPHRASE ME!
Great graphic! Again, I would use highlights.

5. Example 1 Passage from Book
Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place.

6. Good Example 1 PARAPHRASED PASSAGE HIGHLIGHTED PASSAGE
Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place
PARAPHRASED
PASSAGE
King Osiris was the first pharaoh and spread knowledge. Queen Isis ruled Egypt when he was gone.

7. Poor Example 1 Highlighted Passage Poor Paraphrasing
Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place.
Poor Paraphrasing
King Osiris was an ancient Egyptian King and the first pharaoh. He was good and wise because he spread knowledge to other parts of the world. His wife Isis ruled Egypt in his place.

8. Example 2 Passage from Book
Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Set, who cut Osiris’s body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it.
Check the comma and the capital S after it. IS that correct?
Osiris and Set

9. Good Example 2 Highlighted Passage Paraphrased Passage
Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Set who cut his body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it.
Paraphrased Passage
Osiris’s brother Set killed Osiris by cutting his body into pieces, and Isis put the body back together.
I like the noise that you added here for the paraphrased passage. Could you do that for the others?
Isis, Osiris’s wife

10. Poor Example 2 Highlighted Passage Poor Paraphrasing
Upon returning home, Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Set who cut his body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it.
Poor Paraphrasing
Osiris was murdered and Isis found the body

11. Your Turn Remember the Rules Passage from Book
Read the passage carefully
Find the main ideas
Highlight important words or phrases
Put the main points in your own words
Passage from Book
In 1857, a British expedition led by Richard Burton and John Speke set out to find the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. After reaching Lake Tanganyika, the two men split up because Burton was ill.

12. Remember to highlight the right words
Now You Try!
Remember to highlight the right words
In 1857, a British expedition led by Richard Burton and John Speke set out to find the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. After reaching Lake Tanganyika, the two men split up because Burton was ill.
Which one is the best?
Richard Burton and his friend looked for the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. The men split up.
In 1857, Richard Burton and John Speke searched for the great lakes on Ptolemy’s map, but they had to split up when Burton was ill.
Two men from Britain looked for the great lakes but had to split up because one was ill.
I think that some commas are needed in the paragraph. The use of color for the best is an effective strategy. But the heading could read - the purple one is best. So the reader does not have to guess. Also in these two practice slides the sentences are quite long, I am wondering if shorter sentences would be helpful to the students. Also, when you create the lesson plans, I think it would be good if students had copies of the text so that they could practice the highlighting. We’ll do this on Tuesday when we return.

13. Paraphrasing Perfection
Practice your paraphrasing Skills for Perfection
Read passage and write passage down on piece of paper.
Highlight the key words in the passage.
Paraphrase the passage in your own words.
Passage from Book
Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza and was convinced that the White Nile Flowed from it. A second expedition proved him right when he found the outlet of the Nile at a waterfall which he named Ripon Falls.

14. …look like this? Highlighted Passage Paraphrased Passage
Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza and was convinced that the White Nile flowed from it. A second expedition proved him right when he found the outlet of the Nile at a waterfall which he named Ripon Falls.
Paraphrased Passage
Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza and found the outlet of the Nile which he called the Ripon Falls.

15. CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THIS LESSON ON PARAPHRASING! REMEMBER PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!
Fun.