7.6.D

ELA7th Grade The 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 · Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

Teacher's field guide

What This Standard Means

What Students Need to Do

Students put ideas from a source into their own words without changing the meaning. They also shorten a text by selecting key ideas and presenting them in logical order.

What Mastery Looks Like

Students restate a passage using new wording and sentence structure while keeping the original meaning. They summarize the central idea and key details in a clear, logical order.

Common Misconceptions

Students may replace only a few words while copying the original sentence structure. They may also add opinions, omit key ideas, or present events out of order.

How to Assess It

Give students a short paragraph. Ask them to paraphrase one sentence, then summarize the full paragraph in two sentences without changing its meaning.

Lesson moves

Ways to Teach It

  1. Cut a short article into sections, then have groups arrange them logically and write a one-sentence summary for each section.

  2. Ask students to explain how a paraphrase differs from a summary, then revise an example that copies too much from the source.

  3. Play Summary Relay, where teams read a paragraph and reduce it to 30 words, then 20 words, without losing the main idea.

  4. Have students paraphrase a school announcement and summarize a news report for a class bulletin. Both versions must remain accurate.

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