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Paraphrasing Strategy Book
Author(s): Jean B. Schumaker, Pegi H. Denton, and Donald D. Deshler

Publication Info: University of Kansas, 1984

Paraphrasing Strategy Resources:

VIDEO

  • Paraphrasing, Jerry Deyoung HS Economics Teacher, Riverbank CA (00:03:36) (Video)
  • Paraphrasing: Paul Kurdziel, English Teacher, Muskegon, MI (00:04:11) (Video)
  • Paraphrasing Strategy Class Demo (Credit Unknown)(00:03:46) (Video)
  • Paraphrasing Strategy Group Practice (00:02:45) (Video)
  • Expert Commentary: Paraphrasing - Don Deshler, Keith Lenz (Video)
  • Paraphrasing: Chris Romero, Academic Strategies - Riverbank, CA (00:04:18) (Video)
  • Video Resources from the 2003 Paraphrasing Online Academy CD

PPTs

  • Paraphrasing presentation (ppt)

MORE

  • Paraphrasing Strategy Scoring Activities (from PD Guide)
  • PD Packet
  • Paraphrasing Strategy study guide (doc)
  • As you read the manual activity
  • Muskegon High School 2003
  • Access CE and LS Checklists
  • INSTRUCTIONS for the progress monitoring tool
  • Progress Monitoring tool for Paraphrasing  ENABLE MACROS
  • Description of Paraphrasing Strategy from the SIM website
  • Scoring Tips - Ehren, Graner, Cooke 2004
  • Paraphrasing Feedback checkist
  • Paraphrasing Unit Organizer and handouts
  • Paraphrasing Strategy Key Learning Points handout
  • As You Read Activity
  • Building a House on Sand - Faggella-Luby, Graner, Deshler, Drew
  • Paraphrasing Unit Organizer
  • Sesquipedelian activity handout
  • Wandering in the Wilds Handout
  • Contents of Student Folder
  • Feedback Checklist - Basler
  • Paraphrasing Warm Up Activity - Fagan
  • Paraphrasing Cue Card Classroom Posters - Singh

Resources from Florida SPDG

  • Mini Cue Cards
  • Progress Chart
  • Verbal Practice Checklist
  • Paraphrase Score Sheet
  • RAP Bookmarks
  • Feedback Checklist
  • Student Folder Checklist

Teachers can access Florida Live Binder assets. Share this link and password: . 

https://www.livebinders.com/play/play_shared_binder/2667898?play_view=play. Password. LS PS

MICROCREDENTIALS

  • Professional Learning
  • Fidelity of Implementation
  • Specialist

Stratenotes and Strategrams

  • Strategram Volume 1 No. 3 Example Paraphrasing Progress Chart, Paraphrasing Verbal Checklist, Proper Use of Progress Charts
  • Strategram Volume 3, No. 1 Teaching the Paraphrasing Strategy to Younger Students
  • Strategram Vol. 3, No. 6 Paraphrasing Assignment Sheet 
  • Strategram Vol. 8, No. 4, April, 1996: Using Persuasion to Present the Paraphrasing Strategy - and A Sentence to help remember the Paraphrasing Mnemonic - Emmett Murray
  • Strategram Vol. 8, No. 5, July, 1996: Strategy Sticker Reminder for the Generalization Stage of Paraphrasing and Sentence Writing
  • Strategram Vol. 12, No. 5, May, 2000: Tips for teaching paraphrasing - Gwen Berry
  • Strategram Vol. 10, No. 1 Study shows benefits of Paraphrasing Strategy in general ed middle school classrooms
  • Strategram Vol. 13, No.1: An Activity to introduce Main Idea and Details - Margaret Carmean
  • Strategram Vol. 14, No. 3, March, 2002: Recommended reading: Passages for Paraphrasing and Word ID
  • Strategram Vol. 17, No. 5, August, 2005: Active Reading to support Paraphrasing Strategy instruction
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  • Strategram Vol. 15, No. 6 Using color to teach Main Ideas and Teamwork - Sue Woodruff
  • Strategram Vol 17, No. 1 Taking Notes on a Textbook: Combining Paraphrasing Strategy and Framing Routine

 

Research

  • Paraphrasing Strategy Research slides
  • Oas, B.K., Schumaker, J.B., & Deshler, D.D. (1995). Learning strategies: Tools for learning to learn in middle and high schools. Secondary education and beyond: Providing opportunities for students with learning disabilities. Pittsburgh, PA: Learning Disabilities Association of America. This article uses student case descriptions to illustrate how a variety of learning strategies--including the Self-Advocacy Strategy, Sentence Writing Strategy, and Paraphrasing Strategy--might be implemented with students who experience an array of learning disabilities characteristics.
  • Schumaker, J.B., Deshler, D.D., Woodruff, S.K., Hock, M.F., Bulgren, J.A., & Lenz, B.K. (2006). Reading strategy interventions: Can literacy outcomes be enhanced for at-risk adolescents? Teaching Exceptional Children, 38(3), 64-68. In two studies, students who learned reading strategies outperformed students who did not.
  • RAP: A Reading Comprehension Strategy for Students with LD and Concomitant Speech-Language Impairments or ADHD - Suzanne E. Kemp, 2017, Journal of Education and Training The purpose of this
    study was to investigate the efficacy of a paraphrasing cognitive strategy that consists of read,
    ask, put (RAP) on reading comprehension.

 

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