Middle-High School Paraphrasing Activity- JUST SAY NO TO COPY AND PASTE!!
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Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.SimplPrice $8.00Original Price $9.00Save $1.00
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Teachers, how sick and tired are you of students copying and pasting the first thing they find online, renaming it and then handing it in as their own original work? What about their faces when you break their hearts by informing them that they just cheated?
All that ends with this assignment!
First off I have the web addresses of two amazing videos you can access online and questions to go along with the videos. Each one is just over five minutes, very well made and kid-friendly. My questions spotlight the essential information.
After the videos I have old-school style worksheet that contains five primary texts on controversial topics of the day such as the decriminalization of drugs, gun rights, illegal immigration, euthanasia, climate change and of course, whether or not teachers should give homework. It begins with one very clear example and then the students do the rest.
Students read the primary texts and then write two sentences *BY HAND* (NOT COPYING AND PASTING) telling what the main ideas of the passage were. This worksheet would work ideally as a great pre-writing activity for a research project.
ESE or emerging reader students could even select one of the topics in the worksheet for a research report and then cite the passage as a primary source. No more worries about how to get started!
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