Strategy : Paraphrasing

Explanation/Purpose: This is designed to help students focus on the most important information in a passage. Students read short passages of materials, identify the main ideas and details, and rephrase the content in their own words.

How it looks in the classroom: The students will read a paragraph silently but thinking to themselves what the words mean. After finishing the paragraph, they will reread it for a deeper understanding or they could simply skim over the paragraph again looking for the main ideas. The last step is putting the main ideas to their own words.

When? : During and after reading

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