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Improve students’ paraphrasing skills with 32 task cards featuring nonfiction paragraphs. Available in print and digital versions, with additional support materials included. Ideal for grades 2-4. Created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom.
$3.29
Paraphrasing is an essential skill for many types of writing, but a difficult one to master. Each of these 32 paraphrasing task cards (print or digital) features a different informational text (nonfiction) paragraph for students to paraphrase. These paragraphs are ideal for working on this skill because their shorter length will not overwhelm your students, but will still provide plenty of practice. Additional support material is also included with the cards.
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Paraphrasing Task Cards for grades 2-4 are available here.
Terms of Use
This resource was created by Rachel Lynette for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded. If you want to share this resource with colleagues, please purchase additional licenses. Thank you for respecting these terms of use. 🙂
This product is happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom
SKU: 1128601
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Brooke W. –
This resource is fun and easy to use! The students loved it!
Carolyn J. –
One of the big issues I have come across here in Spain is that kids don’t know how to paraphrase. They are so used to copying and pasting that they do it systematically. In my classroom, there is no copying, so at times an issue comes up as a result. These cards should help to show the kids that it isn’t that hard and with plenty of practice, they’ll be set to go in no time. Thank you!
Sandra G. –
This was a great resource to explicitly teach paraphrasing. After I modelled one and showed examples the students were able to complete a task card. This is a great activity especially before working on a research project.
Andrea J. –
This was a great resource to use. I used it with an afterschool program. Some students worked in groups and others worked individually.
Rebecca H. –
My 8th grade students REALLY struggle with paraphrasing and summarizing (and plagiarism) this year. I gave this as extra practice and felt it provided an easy to use platform to look at how we paraphrase things. (Also I’m from Newark, OH so I enjoyed the last paraphrasing card) 🙂 Thank you! I’ll use this again!
Jill C. –
This task card package has students practice paraphrasing. It is packaged with a good answer key. It is a must if you are starting your research unit!! It has plenty of cards and practice opportunities. So many ways to use this! Great value for my intended outcomes.
Caitlyn H. –
Great resource to use in my 5/6 classroom. Activities were engaging. Very helpful to me and effective for my learners, thank you! 🙂
this global teacher –
I LOVE this activity! So many slides of practice for my students; it was so helpful in teaching them to paraphrase. Also, it’s easy to use and asthetically pleasing to the eye. Thank you!
Sharon C. –
This was a perfect resource to teach paraphrasing. The paragraphs were short and interesting, so the students could be successful right from the start. We started with underlining words we wanted to find synonyms for, then circling words that could not be changed. Then we rearranged sentences and lastly checked to see if the paraphrased version kept the essence of the original. This resource saved me time. Thanks. Sharon Copper
Amy D. –
Was what I needed for a quick informal assessment of paraphrasing skills with a student. I will continue to use it as a resource for teaching paraphrasing skills.