5.7D - Paraphrasing & Summarizing

"I don't want a babysitter. I am eleven years old. My babysitter is only three years older than I am," she loudly yelled to her Mom. Now, she really wished she had somebody with her as she heard the clicking, scratching noises outside of the living room window. "This is silly. It's probably the storm," the girl said. She regretted watching the horror show she had been tuned into for the last half hour. As she searched for the remote to turn off the vampire movie, the front door blew open with a thunderous noise. Carla whirled around to see a dark image."

Carla didn't want a babysitter because:

• She believes she is old enough to take care of herself.

• She wants to watch scary movies.

• Carla's mother leaves her alone all the time.

• Carla's babysitter is only three years older than Carla.

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.W.5.1B

Summarizing is a retelling in your own words, a short version of the main ideas, events and details.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When you determine the main idea of a text, significant details and condensing information into a short one or two sentence summary, you are:

• predicting
• evaluating
• summarizing
• judging

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TEKS.ELA.CR.5A

TEKS.ELA.E1.4I

TEKS.ELA.PSW.5A

TEKS.ELA.RI.1B

TEKS.ELA.RI.4G

"I don't want a babysitter. I am eleven years old. My babysitter is only three years older than I am," she loudly yelled to her Mom. Now, she really wished she had somebody with her as she heard the clicking, scratching noises outside of the living room window. "This is silly. It's probably the storm," the girl said. She regretted watching the horror show she had been tuned into for the last half hour. As she searched for the remote to turn off the vampire movie, the front door blew open with a thunderous noise. Carla whirled around to see a dark image."

Carla didn't want a babysitter because:

• She believes she is old enough to take care of herself.

• She wants to watch scary movies.

• Carla's mother leaves her alone all the time.

• Carla's babysitter is only three years older than Carla.

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TEKS.ELA.6.6G

TEKS.ELA.7.6G

TEKS.ELA.8.6G

TEKS.ELA.E1.5G

TEKS.ELA.E3.5G

"In short, adoption is a ubiquitous social institution in American society, creating invisible relationships with biological and adoptive kin that touch far more people

than we imagine.”

Which one is the best paraphrase of this sentence?

• In America, more people are adopted than was originally thought.

• Adoption touches a surprising number of people throughout American society.

• Because adoptees are “invisible,” their circumstances are hard to imagine.

• Relationships between biological and adoptive kin have international scope.

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TEKS.ELA.4.7D

TEKS.ELA.5.7D

TEKS.ELA.6.6D

TEKS.ELA.7.6D

TEKS.ELA.8.6D

Original Source:

“The amount of time females allocated to maintenance behaviors, including self-preening, preening nestlings, allopreening, and maintaining their nest, decreased by 30% in response to hikers.”

Student's Entry:

The presence of hikers reduced female owls’ preening, of themselves, their young and their mates, and nest maintenance behaviors by over 25% (Swarthout & Steidl 2003).

• This is an example of plagiarism.

• This is not an example of plagiarism.

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TEKS.ELA.4.13D

TEKS.ELA.4.7E

TEKS.ELA.5.13C

TEKS.ELA.5.13D

TEKS.ELA.5.7E

“Third, in a nation that sanctifies blood kinship, adoptive families and adoptees are stigmatized because of their lack of biological relationship.”

Which one is the best paraphrase of the sentence?

• Nations that sanctify blood relationships are often stigmatized.

• Adoptive families and adoptees are treated like criminals in nations that over-value blood relationships.

• Where blood kinship is excessively valued, adoption is considered inferior.

• In some nations, adoptees do not have the same legal relationship to their adoptive parents as blood kin have to their birth parents.

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TEKS.ELA.4.7D

TEKS.ELA.5.7D

TEKS.ELA.6.6D

TEKS.ELA.7.6D

TEKS.ELA.8.6D