Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.9.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 read a grade-level passage and restate its ideas in their own words. They preserve the meaning and key details while changing vocabulary and sentence structure.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students restate a passage accurately using new wording and sentence structure. They keep the original meaning, key details, and tone without copying distinctive phrases.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may swap a few words for synonyms while keeping the original sentence structure. They may add opinions, omit key details, or confuse paraphrasing with summarizing.
How to Assess It
- Give students a four-sentence passage and ask them to paraphrase it in three or four sentences without looking back after the first reading.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips from a passage, then have them rebuild each idea with different words and sentence patterns.
Ask students to explain how paraphrasing differs from quoting and summarizing, using one short passage as evidence.
Play Paraphrase Relay, where teams rewrite a sentence, check meaning, and pass it to the next teammate for revision.
Have students paraphrase a school policy, news report, or set of directions for a younger student.
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