Marie--Paraphrasing+and+Summarizing

TASK DEFINITION Students are doing an animal adaptation report. A Four-Square organizer will be created for them to use.

INFORMATION SEEKING STRATEGY We will review that there are other sources. Today, we are going to use the on-line source Amazing Animals from gogrolier.com

LOCATION AND ACCESS We will show the students how to access animal information on the website.

USE OF INFORMATION We will show the students how to paraphrase by having them:
 * open the source and read a chunk of information
 * minimize the source and write the information briefly, in their own words
 * maximize the source and check to see if what they wrote makes sense

SYNTHESIS The information will be used in a final project.

EVALUATION In a peer evaluation, the students will pair up and review their paraphrasing to see if it was written in their own words.