Target Audience: General Education Teachers working with students with IEP’s, Co-Teachers, Interventionist, Instructional Coaches, Resource Teachers

The Paraphrasing Strategy is a University of Kansas Strategic Instruction Model designed to help students determine the most important information within a passage and improve information recall of main ideas and facts. The strategy is implemented through passage instruction supporting students reading, determining main ideas and details, and then rephrasing information in their own words.

Research has shown that students who master the strategy have an average  gains of 35 percentage points in reading comprehension of grade-level material.