What's the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing? Show class members how to find the main ideas from informational text and condense it, restate it, or quote it directly with a series of educational activities based on two articles and handy reference sheets.

Concepts

summaries, paraphrasing, direct quotes, citations, supporting evidence, textual evidence, informational texts, nonfiction text features, text features

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a writer's workshop or language arts class when focusing on informational text
• Show the episode of Gilmore Girls described in the reading excerpt
• Have class members find additional nonfiction articles or columns to summarize, paraphrase, and cite
• Encourage learners to add the reference pages to their language arts binders

Classroom Considerations

• Provides a lot of resources and activities; you could use the entire lesson in one long class period, or stretch it out over several days

Pros

• Provides all the materials needed for each part of the lesson
• Scaffolds the lessons to guide learners through the reading process

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.7.1 RI.7.2 RI.8.1 RI.8.2 RI.9-10.1 RI.9-10.2