Paraphrase/Retell
Paraphrasing
is restating or explaining ideas in your own words while retaining the
meaning and ideas in the original text. Retelling captures main ideas with supporting details. Paraphrasing
helps readers check their own comprehension.
Guiding Questions:
- How can
you put these facts into your own words?
- Which
words capture the main ideas from this selection? How can you use the
list of key words to make your own fact statements?
- If you
wrote the key ideas as a grocery list, how would you compact the text?
Which items are essential to the list? Which items can be omitted?
- What
was your purpose for reading? Which details matched your goals? Which
details were irrelevant to your purposes for reading the article?
- What
questions did you want answered in the text?
- What answers were revealed?
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