Paraphrasing pain is REAL! This is a complex concept & a complex skill for young writers to master and teaching paraphrasing can sometimes feel like a painful task!

This Paraphrasing Resources Educator Guide comes with a variety of ready made, student facing resources to support educators as they teach students the complexities of correctly paraphrasing. 

A fun and engaging way to start of a Paraphrasing Mini-Unit is to have students take the Paraphrasing self-assessment. This gives both you and your students insights as to where the class is on their learning journey.

As you move farther into a unit of Paraphrasing, a great tool is Turnitin's Similarity Reports:

You can transform the Similarity Report into a type of formative feedback tool by ensuring that you have NOT filtered similarity matches by small sources. Allowing small source matches to be detected in student submissions will show students if they have sufficiently used their own words to rephrase the someone's original ideas. 

If you're using Feedback Studio, you can also utilize the Paraphrasing QuickMark sets to give specific, where-to-next feedback, rapidly improving student's paraphrasing understanding and skills.

These resources can truly take the pain of teaching paraphrasing and 'turn it in' to a productive, smooth, and seamless process.