Quote, Summary, or Paraphrase Paragraph

Welcome students! Today, I am going to teach you about what evidence is, when to summarize and what a summary is, when to use a quote and what a quote is, when to paraphrase and what a paraphrase is. It will be easy to understand if you pay attention and listen. Evidence is text you find in a reliable source that helps to answer a question. Summarizing is when you retell the main ideas of the text using fewer words. You summarize evidence when it is a long selection of text, such as multiple sentences or a whole paragraph. Learning to summarize is very important in school, and you will use it many times for class. A quote is a direct copy from the text exactly as it appears in the text with quotation marks around it. You quote evidence if it is a short and very specific section of the text that you need to copy exactly to keep its meaning. Another thing you need to remember is what paraphrasing is. Paraphrasing is when retell the ideas using your own words. You paraphrase evidence if it is a short and simple selection of text that you can easily put in your own words. One thing you should do to help you remember this is to practice using it, this will help you to remember each one and what they mean.