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