6.6.D

ELA6th GradeThe student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

The Standard

paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students put a source's ideas into their own words while keeping the original meaning. They also shorten a source to its key points and preserve the idea sequence.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can restate a passage in their own words without changing its message. They can select key details, leave out minor points, and present ideas in a clear order.
Common Misconceptions: Students may copy phrases and call them a paraphrase. They may add opinions, omit key ideas, or place events and reasons out of order.
How to Assess It: Give students a 150-word passage. Ask them to write a two-sentence paraphrase of one paragraph and a three-sentence summary of the whole passage.

Lesson moves

Give pairs sentence strips from a short article to sequence, then have them retell the article using new wording.
Ask students to explain how a paraphrase differs from a summary, using examples from the same paragraph.
Play Summary Relay, where teams reduce a passage from 50 words to 25, then 10, while keeping the main idea.
Have students summarize a school announcement for a classmate who was absent, keeping dates, actions, and reasons in order.

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