Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.12.R.3.2

ELA12th GradeReading Across Genres

The Standard

Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.

Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read a complex passage, identify its claims and supporting details, then restate them using their own wording and sentence structures. They keep the original meaning, scope, and relationships between ideas.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can restate a complex passage with new wording and sentence structures while keeping its meaning and level of detail. They preserve key claims, evidence, relationships, and qualifiers without adding opinions or copying distinctive phrases.
Common Misconceptions: Students often replace a few words with synonyms while keeping the original sentence structure. They may leave out qualifiers, add personal interpretation, or shorten the passage into a summary. Some also omit attribution because they did not use a direct quotation.
How to Assess It: Give students a 100-word editorial paragraph and ask: “Restate the writer’s claim, reasons, and qualifiers in new wording and sentence structures. Include attribution.”

Lesson moves

Have pairs color-code meaning units in a paragraph, then rearrange labeled cards before writing the ideas in new sentences.
Ask students to explain when a paraphrase is more useful than a quotation, then defend their choice with an example.
Run a paraphrase relay where teams revise copied wording, fixed sentence structures, missing qualifiers, and added opinions in four sample responses.
Give students a workplace email or news report and have them paraphrase it for a supervisor who needs the key details.

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