🧠📚 Teaching Tip Tuesday: Scaffold Paraphrasing for HOTS Development ✍️💡

If your students struggle to summarize or explain ideas in their own words, they may need more structured support with paraphrasing — a key skill for building Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).

✅ Learn about these simple scaffolding strategies:
🔹 Model It – Show how to reword a sentence without changing the meaning.
🔹 Use Sentence Frames – Prompts like “In my own words...” guide student thinking.
🔹 Break It Down – Focus on rephrasing key ideas bit by bit.
🔹 Peer Collaboration – Let students practice paraphrasing together to build confidence.
🔹 Pro Tip: Avoid copy-paste thinking. Encourage students to understand first, then rephrase.

Try one of these strategies this week and help your students build confidence in expressing original ideas!