Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.10.R.3.2
The Standard
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify the main ideas and supporting details in a grade-level passage, then restate them in their own words. They preserve the source's meaning and relationships. They avoid copying distinctive wording or adding opinions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can paraphrase a complex paragraph without following its wording line by line. The result includes needed details, changes both wording and sentence structure, and remains accurate. The student cites the source when required.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often swap a few words for synonyms while keeping the original sentence structure. Some turn the passage into a summary, omit qualifications, or add interpretation. Others believe a paraphrase needs no citation because the wording changed.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 100-word paragraph and ask for a two-sentence paraphrase that preserves its claim, one supporting detail, and any qualification. Check for accuracy, copied phrases, and changed sentence structure.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed paragraph to cut into idea strips, reorder by meaning, and rebuild as a paraphrase without viewing the original.
Show two paraphrases of one paragraph and ask, “Which is more accurate and original, and what specific wording proves it?”
Play Paraphrase Relay: teams read a passage, cover it, write one accurate sentence, then pass it for the next idea.
Have students rewrite a school attendance policy paragraph for a new student, preserving every rule while making the language easier to understand.
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