Paraphrasing: Academic Vocab Quiz

What is a paraphrase?

• a word that means the same thing as another word

• a small group of words that have meaning

• putting information into your own words

• a group of words that has a subject, verb, makes sense, and has proper capitalization and punctuation

What is a synonym?

• a word that means the same thing as another word

• a small group of words that has meaning

• putting information into your own words

• a group of words that has a subject, verb, makes sense, and has proper capitalization and punctuation

What is a phrase?

• a word that means the same thing as another words

• a small group of words that has meaning

• putting information into your own words

• a group of words that has a subject, verb, makes sense, and has proper capitalization and punctuation

What is a sentence?

• a word that means the same thing as another word

• a small group of words that has meaning

• putting information into your own words

• a group of words that has a subject, verb, makes sense, and has proper capitalization and punctuation

What are the three characteristics of a good paraphrase?

• must be correct

• must have grammar & punctuation

• must include your own words

• must be mom-approved

• must make sense

Which is not a step in the process for paraphrasing a sentence?

• read it

• break it into a phrase

• google it

• replace most of it with your own words

• check it for the 3 characteristics

To find the main idea, ask:

"What does this paragraph tell me about the _______?"

• topic

• main idea

• details

To find the detail, ask:

"What's one piece of specific information about the ______?"

• topic

• main idea

• detail

• example

To find the topic, say:

"This paragraph is about _______", and then fill in the blank with ...

• the main idea

• 3 details from the paragraph

• 1 or 2 words

• a complete sentence