Rewrite the information in

your own words. Whoever gets the

most accurate rewritten

information will win the game.

By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Movie studios, record companies and video game producers are aggressively marketing violent entertainment products to children even as they label the material inappropriate for young audiences, a year long Federal Trade Commission investigation had found.

When it comes to momentous events in U.S. history, the War of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many - a forgettable hiccup in history.

In Your Own Words…

PARAPHRASING

In the end, you will know…

o How to put a passage in your own words without changing the meaning

o The definition of Paraphrasing

o How to find the main idea of the text in order to paraphrase it

What is Paraphrasing?

o PARAPHRASING IS…o A rewriting of text in

your own wordso Used to clarify

meaning o Used to shorten a

longer statement but keeps the main ideas

So how do we do it?

1.Read the passage carefully.

PARAPHRASE ME!

*Refrain from skipping words

So how do we do it?

2. Decide the main ideas of the passage

PARAPHRASE ME!

Main idea is the key sentence in the paragraph

So how do we do it?

PARAPHRASE ME!

Main idea can be directly stated in the paragraph or implied.

Directly stated: Beginning, Middle, End of the paragraph.

Implied: the idea given as a whole.

By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Determine the main idea.

our planet is 4.54 billion years old

Determine the main idea.Movie studios, record

companies and video game producers are aggressively marketing violent entertainment products to children even as they label the material inappropriate for young audiences, a year long Federal Trade Commission investigation had found.

Movie studios, record

companies and video game

producers are aggressively marketing

violent entertainment

products to children

Determine the main idea.

War of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many

When it comes to momentous events in U.S. history, the War of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many - a forgettable hiccup in history.

So how do we do it?

3. Highlight important words or phrases

nominal data: o Nameso Dateso Eventso Actions

PARAPHRASE ME!

By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

Which should be highlighted?

Movie studios, record companies and video game producers are aggressively marketing violent entertainment products to children even as they label the material inappropriate for young audiences, a year long Federal Trade Commission investigation had found.

Which should be highlighted?

When it comes to momentous events in U.S. history, the War of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many - a forgettable hiccup in history.

Which should be highlighted?

So how do we do it?

4. Put the main points in your own words

PARAPHRASE ME!

By current scientific reckoning, our planet is 4.54 billion years old, give or take a few million years.

MAIN IDEA: our planet is 4.54 billion years old

PARAPHRASED: Scientists say the earth is about 4 .54 billion years old.

Movie studios, record companies and video game producers are aggressively marketing violent entertainment products to children even as they label the material inappropriate for young audiences, a year long Federal Trade Commission investigation had found.

MAIN IDEA: Movie studios, record companies and video game producers are aggressively marketing violent entertainment products to children

PARAPHRASED:The Federal Trade Commission discovered that the entertainment companies are trying hard to get children to buy their violent products even though they say those products are not for children.

When it comes to momentous events in U.S. history, the War of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many - a forgettable hiccup in history.

MAIN IDEA: War of 1812 ranks low in the minds of many

PARAPHRASED:The War of 1812 is not a very memorable part of U.S. history.

REMEMBER THE STEPS IN PARAPHRASING

1. Read the passage carefully

2. Decide the main ideas of the passage

3. Highlight important words or phrases

4. Put the main points in your own words

PARAPHRASE ME!

TIPS IN PARAPHRASING

1. Make it SHORT and SIMPLE 2. Use SIMPLE VOCABULARY3. Retain IMPORTANT DETAILS4. The MEANING does not change

EXERCISEPassage from Book

• Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place.

MAIN IDEA: Osiris , a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh of Egypt

Passage from Book• Ancient Egyptians

believed that Osiris, a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place.

MAIN IDEA: Osiris , a good and wise king, was the first pharaoh of Egypt • Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris, a

good and wise king, was the first pharaoh. He spread knowledge to other parts of the world, while his wife, Isis, ruled Egypt in his place.

PARAPHRASED PASSAGE:· King Osiris was the first pharaoh and shared

his knowledge. Queen Isis ruled Egypt when he was gone.

COMPARE

Good Paraphrasing· King Osiris was the first

pharaoh and spread knowledge. Queen Isis ruled Egypt when he was gone.

Poor Paraphrasing· King Osiris was an

ancient Egyptian King and the first pharaoh. He was good and wise because he spread knowledge to other parts of the world. His wife Isis ruled Egypt in his place.

Paraphrase the following.

Passage #1Upon returning home,

Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Set, who cut Osiris’s body into pieces and dumped it in the Nile River. Isis found the body and put it back together by winding linen bandages around it.

Osiris and Set

Passage #2Speke discovered

Victoria Nyanza and was convinced that the White Nile flowed from it. A second expedition proved him right when he found the outlet of the Nile at a waterfall which he named Ripon Falls.

Passage #3

In 1857, a British expedition led by Richard Burton and John Speke set out to find the great lakes shown on Ptolemy’s map. After reaching Lake Tanganyika, the two men split up because Burton was ill.