Procedure:
01. Prepare (10 minutes)
Initiate a discussion with students revising their summarizing and direct quoting skills. Introduce paraphrasing as a concept. Watch a video and make students take notes.
02.Guided practice (20 minutes)
Group students in 2’s or 3’s and show them an original text and a paraphrased version of it.
Instructor asks each group about what parts of the original texts have been changed.
Example questions:
“Focus on the vocabulary. Which words have been changed? What alternatives can you find?”
“Focus on the grammar. How have the sentences in the paraphrased version changed? How would you change them?”
Instructor demonstrates some of the examples from the paraphrased version in plenary ( changes in vocab, organization, rules according to APA citation etc.)
03. Practice ( 25-30 minutes)
Students first see original samples from Adichie’s speech ( a text they have studied before. A new text can also be provided but it should not be too difficult to paraphrase yet). They start paraphrasing on sentence level.
Later students share their paraphrases on Padlet and get feedback from the instructor.
Students then paraphrase a paragraph from Kindra Cherry’s “How People’s Prejudices Develop” ( a text they have studied before. A new text can also be provided but it should not be too difficult to paraphrase yet).
04. Closure (15 minutes)
Provide students with a checklist and engage them in a peer review of their paraphrases.