Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.11.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 put an author's ideas into their own words while preserving meaning, emphasis, and key details. They change both vocabulary and sentence structure without adding opinions or copying distinctive phrases.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can rewrite a complex passage with new wording and sentence structure while keeping its full meaning. The paraphrase remains accurate, includes key details, and avoids added opinions.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may swap a few words for synonyms while keeping the original sentence structure. They may also confuse paraphrasing with summarizing, omit key details, or add their own interpretation.
How to Assess It
- Give students a 100-word passage and ask for a two-sentence paraphrase that keeps all key ideas without copying any phrase longer than three words.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips from a passage, then have them rearrange ideas and replace wording to create an accurate paraphrase.
Ask students to explain how a paraphrase differs from a summary, then revise one example that is too short or too close.
Play Paraphrase Match by having teams pair original passages with accurate rewrites and reject versions that distort or copy.
Have students paraphrase a paragraph from a workplace policy, news report, or college course description for a classmate.
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