The Paraphrasing Strategy
Good readers are active and engaged while reading.
How do we engage ourstruggling readers?
Summarizing was identified as oneof the instructional strategies with a high probability of enhancing student achievement for all students … in all subject areas … at all grade levels.
Classroom Instruction That WorksResearch-Based Strategies For Increasing Student Achievement
Robert Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane Pollock
Become a RAP Star
R…A…P…R…A…P…
As Easy as 1…2…3…
As Easy as 1…2…3…
Well, Maybe….
READREADTHINKTHINK
And TALKAnd TALK
Activities for Thinking while Reading
Activities for Thinking while Reading
• 3 Minute Pause• Think Aloud• Talk to the Text
• 3 Minute Pause• Think Aloud• Talk to the Text
Let’s Do A Think-Aloud
Let’s Do A Think-Aloud
“If you could wake up tomorrow with significantly more positive, focused energy to invest at work, and with your family,how significantly would that change yourlife for the better? As a leader and a manager, how valuable would it be to bringmore positive energy and passion to the work place? If those you lead could call on more positive energy, how would it affecttheir relationships with one another, andthe quality of service they deliver to customers and clients?”
The Power of Full EngagementBy Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Ask Questions
Ask Questions
Think… Talk…Think… Talk…
Good readersanalyze the information.
Questions lead to connections … predictions … conclusions.
Questions lead to connections … predictions … conclusions.
• Marking the Text
• Marking the Text
•Tear and Share•Tear and Share
•What’s Your Guess?
Begin to Question …
Marking the Text …Marking the Text …No Lessons Left Behind
USA TodayWednesday, July 20, 2005
Good news. Oddly, you heard the sound of one hand clapping last week as the Education Department released national data showingdramatic narrowing of racial learning gaps among elementary and middle school students. The news deserved ringing applause.
? Why only one hand?
BK I know which department this would be.
? How dramatic?
? What about high school?
I Maybe it didn’t get applause because of the way the results were determined.
Tear and Share
Tear and Share
Is an activity that focuses on answering questions
and analyzing those answers.
It also leads into the “Put It In Your Own
Words” Step.
Is an activity that focuses on answering questions
and analyzing those answers.
It also leads into the “Put It In Your Own
Words” Step.
Put it in your own
words
Put it in your own
wordsParaphraseParaphrase
•Frame•Frame
•Text in the Middle•Text in the Middle
Put the text in your own words …
ParaphrasingIs
Powerful
ParaphrasingIs
Powerful
Paraphrasing can help bring meaningto text …And open doors of opportunity for ourstudents.
“I could open a book, and I could beanything. I could be anywhere. I couldbe anyone. My friends, I read myself out of poverty long before I worked myselfout of poverty.
Walter Anderson, 1994EditorParade Magazine