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WorksheetsPARAPHRASING & SUMMARISING
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 58mins
PARAPHRASING means . . .
writing down exactly what a passage says
putting information
into your own words
To express someone else’s ideas in our own words means . . .
Paraphrasing
Quoting
Summarizing
What is the best summary of the following passage?
The Elk River flows from the far northern part of the state all the way to the southern tip. All kinds of animals rely on it for drinking water, people eat the fish they catch in it, and farmers in the state depend on it for irrigating their crops. Since there is very little rain in this state, the Elk River gives animals and humans the water they need to stay alive. Even though the river is not nearly the biggest in the nation, it is very important to the people and animals that live near it.
The Elk River is a small river.
The Elk River starts in the northern part of the state.
The Elk River is very important to people and animals.
People catch fish in the Elk River.
For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome.
The Summary of this passage is:
Jenny likes bright colors.
Jenny was going to paint her room.
Jenny was picking out colors and materials to decorate her room.
Yellow is a good color to paint your walls.
Read the excerpt below.
Which sentence best restates the ideas?
"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950's, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920's."
Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950's.
Television became popular in the 1950's, but the first televisions were used thirty years earlier.
Television became popular in the 1920's, and again in the 1950's.
When you paraphrase, you should be sure to..
Put quotation marks around it
Put it in your own words and make it shorter than the original
Put it in your own words, but keep it about the same length as the original
Just change the order of the words around in the sentence
Lionel Messi earns a whopping $39.6 million a year for playing striker for La Liga's Barcelona team.
(Scholastic Book of World Records 2011 page 99)
Books lay in the middle of his floor. Several broken toys were shoved halfway under the bed, and dirty clothes were everywhere. Frank's parents kept telling him to clean his room, but it never seemed to get clean. In fact, if Frank did manage to clean part of it, the rest of the room just got messier. In one corner of the room was an old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an open bag of potato chips was thrown on the dresser.
Math didn't make much sense to Cathy. She always got area and perimeter mixed up and she had no idea what a right angle was. Last quarter she failed math, and this quarter wasn't any better. As long as she could remember, math had been hard for Cathy. She did fine in reading and science, but not math. Now she was working on her math homework, but she didn't know how to do most of it. Who invented math, anyway!
Brazil is the largest country in South America and Suriname is the smallest.
Donald’s car is $1.000.000, while mine is only $35.000.
Donald’s car is ……………………… more expensive than my car.
less
far
nowhere near
not
There are far more people watching movies than people reading books.
Film is a lot …………………………. than books.
more interesting
less interesting
more like
less like
Ramesh never enjoys watching movie.
Ramesh is not ………………………….. in watching movies.
interested
keen
into
fond of
This is the first time the principal plays a guitar in front of all students.
The principal has …………………… played guitar in front of all students before.
never
been
first time
had never
I saw Laura and Janet going to Jack’s house yesterday morning.
Laura and Jane ………………….. to Jack’s house yesterday morning.
went
go
going
have gone
Students can stay longer in front of their tabs playing games, but not reading e-books.
Students say that playing games is ........ more interesting than reading e-books.
much
more
less
nowhere near
How could you paraphrase the following sentence: "Moby, the orange robot, is best friends with a boy named Tim."
Moby, the orange robot, is best friends with a man named Tim.
Tim is best friends with an orange robot named Moby.
Moby is an orange robot.
Tim and Moby are friends.
