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Paraphrasing is a reading comprehension and writing skill. Read a sentence or paragraph, ask questions about the text (i.e. what is the main idea?) and then write the same idea in different words. That strategy is called RAP (read-ask-paraphrase).
Here are some characteristics of good paraphrasing:
Teaching ESL students how to write English sentences with parallel structure can improve sentence clarity, style and impact not to mention good grammar. As the level of writing progresses, ESL students may find that sentences with parallel structure can serve many purposes, such as a thesis sentence in an essay or the concluding sentence of a paragraph.
Teaches ESL students a specific kind of sentence that works well in all kinds of writing. It looks like a grammar lesson, but really this lesson shows ESL students how to improve their English writing style.
An appositive is a noun, or noun phrase, that gives the reader extra information about a nearby noun. An appositive resembles a relative clause – but there are no words like ‘which, who or that’ at the beginning of the clause.
For example: Benny, my first dog, loved to chase birds. (The appositive is my first dog.)