Waaayyy long ago when I taught seventh grade, I had a folder in my filing cabinet called "Paraphrasing". I had a few worksheets in...

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of pulling out my presentation suitcases and doing a presentation about summarizing. I've been pres...

Last week, as part of our nonfiction study, we looked at how to paraphrase sentences. Paraphrasing is the process of putting ideas from the ...

Upon our return from the break, I've been teaching paraphrasing. Of course, in fourth grade, paraphrasing has a very different meaning f...

It's hard to do, it's hard to teach. But paraphrasing is so important for our young readers. When students can put ideas into their ...

What’s Important? A few weeks ago, while my student teacher was teaching full time, I had the chance to teach a reading lesson in every clas...