Summarizing Paraphrasing And Retelling

What's the big idea? That's a question students are asked all the time in papers, assessments, and standardized writing tests of every sort. Whether summarizing research sources or synopsizing the plot of a two-hundred page novel, the ability to cut through extraneous details and describe the major themes and highlights of a text is key to success in school and in life. Until now, however, summarization has been difficult to teach and learn, but with Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling, you'll discover a powerful and practical way to teach these vital skills. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling is a slim, do-it-all guide that presents everything you need for teaching kids to separate out trivial items in their reading and then identify and communicate the main ideas and crucial details. Emily Kissner breaks summarization down into smaller, more manageable skills-such as paraphrasing, writing synopses, retelling, and restating the main-idea-illustrating what good summarization looks like and how to adjust your teaching to fit your students' needs. She offers not only methods for individual and group instruction, but also handy, reproducible resources, such as assessment checklists, forms for group work, peer-response sheets, and sample passages for students to practice with. Best of all, Kissner's approach is a student-centered alternative to more traditional skill-and-drill preparations. Supported by research and tested in classrooms, Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling gives you both big ideas for powerful teaching and important particulars to help you plan instruction and analyze your students' progress. What's the big idea behind teaching summarizing? Read Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling and find out.

An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

Summarization. Just when we thought we knew everything about it, the doors to divergent thinking open and summarization—no longer something that students must endure until you get to the "cool" stuff—takes on an exciting new role in student success! In this second edition of Summarization in Any Subject, Dedra Stafford joins Rick Wormeli in adding fresh depth and creative variations to the basics, including changes to all 50 techniques from the first edition and brand new summarizing techniques that can be differentiated for multiple disciplines and levels of student readiness. Personably written, with a sense of humor and a commitment to students' substantive engagement with curriculum, this new edition provides practical, "show me what it looks like" tools and descriptions as well as QR codes and tech integrations for many of the techniques. The book provides A clear rationale for summarization in any subject along with an explanation of the cognitive science that powers its positive effects, including the influence of background knowledge and primacy-recency, plus the benefits of metaphors, chunking, timing, maintaining objectivity, and the efficacy that comes when students process content. Practical tips for teaching students note taking, paraphrasing, and text structure. Nine easy strategies that teachers can use to help students begin to understand what they need to know in order to summarize. Detailed descriptions of 60 strategies and critical thinking variations that provide students with memorable learning experiences, plus targeted support materials that assist in teaching and learning. It's time to revitalize learning and shatter the tedium associated with summarization, and this new edition of Summarization in Any Subject can help you do just that.

*Struggling to paraphrase your work?*Feeling frustrated that paraphrasing and academic language are holding you back from expressing yourself or lowering your chances to score higher grades?*Did you know; that paraphrasing is not always focussed on just commonly avoiding plagiarism, it has so much more potential. It can also be applied passionately to improve your reading comprehension, produce amazing fresh writing quality and get your assignments completed faster, stress-free.As long as you have interest, confidence, and passion to succeed, you can use these 7 simple steps of paraphrasing to achieve impressive grades. Once you know what your' doing, it becomes so much easier to accomplish anything.In this book, paraphrasing is tailored to suit your needs, because each student is different and each assignment has different expectations to fulfill.Take advantage of years of experience and skill from a professional university lecturer / private tutor.Discover;*The importance of paraphrasing and visualize the process through clear illustrations.*Access 'immediate help' and experience a 'one to one' tutoring session to receive full support.*Practice the 7 simple steps in detail.*Understand how to deliver your main message and how to 'reach' your audience.*Learn to paraphrase through realistic scenarios.*Be exposed to all of the hidden challenges and solutions.*Utilize a huge range of different effective paraphrasing techniques.*Feel confident to paraphrase complex paragraphs or break-down smaller detailed sentences.Welcome to a totally new and refreshing way to paraphrase. Paraphrasing is a well-known academic process. Although, it is totally underrated and not used to its full potential. Lecturers expect students to produce an academic quality of work within their assignments, dissertations, and essays. However, many students still struggle to deliver high academic standards, possibly because of their limited practice in English language and grammar, but mainly because of their fear of committing plagiarism.We all need to paraphrase when writing an assignment, along with the conduct of research, reading and referencing to achieve good grades and avoid plagiarism.End all of your frustrations, and gain maximum benefits from applying these crucial yet simple paraphrasing principles.Start to enjoy writing your assignments with confidence and professionalism, rather than be totally discouraged, board and unsure. After learning about paraphrasing from this book, you will begin to appreciate the academic world. Be reminded of its excitements and the reasons why you started your degree, Masters or Ph.D. Maintain that dream of achieving the best qualification you can with enjoyable experiences to enrich your life.This 'full' student guide will trigger your passion to learn more within your topic or field of research and will aid you to use that passion as a driving force to 'get the job done' (professionally and academically).There are fundamental actions to follow within '7 simple steps'. Students can read through the most suitable chapters that support them the most. Use this book in the best way that suits your needs and preferences.With this student guide book, you can learn about the importance of paraphrasing, enjoy paraphrasing as an exciting experience to boost your grades, not worry about plagiarism and finally write assignments stress-free. This book will encourage you to use a critical yet open mind.You will benefit from this book if you are:*In a hurry to paraphrase 'in real time'*Interested in practicing more, and boosting your writing skills*Improve reading comprehensionAlready confident with paraphrasing?*There is always something new and interesting to learn.

This book explores the effectiveness of listen-to-summarize tasks as a tool to assess lecture comprehension ability. It especially focuses on listen-to-summarize tasks that represent listeners’ meaning building and the discourse construction of the lecture for listening assessment purposes. It discusses in depth the nature of lecture comprehension and introduces the approaches to assessing it. It also presents teachers’ and students’ perceptions of listen-to-summarize task demands and their respective implications. By observing interactions between test-takers’ cognitive processes and the task itself, the book explores the effectiveness of these tasks. It also examines the discrepancy in cognitive processes between different language competence levels in detail, shedding light upon current research on lecture comprehension assessment and offering insights into listening comprehension instruction.

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him.

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The classic story of the three pigs who build their houses out of different materials and of the wolf who is determined to eat them all.