[Music] do you like sugar i love how sweet sugar tastes i'm Mrs defa and I'm excited to read and write with you today about a super sweet topic sugar beats today as we learn about sugar beats we are going to think about our thinking as we read this is called metacognition our purpose for reading today is to paraphrase what we learn paraphrase means to write about what you learn in your own words we will also practice inserting direct quotes direct quotes are the author's actual words we want to use in our writing when we read we are learning so we must use our metacognition ask yourself does the text make sense if the text doesn't make sense a siren should go off in our heads that says "Reree reread."

You need to stop and use your strategies to help decode and comprehend or understand challenging vocabulary i will write a summary using paraphrases or my own words and quotes or the author's exact words a summary includes the most important ideas from a text and connects its central ideas in a way that helps me better remember what I read since comprehension requires understanding vocabulary let's talk about four vocabulary words in this passage harvest acres facility processing remember we're learning about sugar beats in this passage harvest means to collect the sugar beets from the ground an acre is a unit of measurement for land facilities are buildings and processing is following steps to turn sugar beets into sugar now that we know some of the vocabulary let's read the text after reading let me show you how to do this important work first I learned a lot from reading the source but because I think some of these words might be challenging for us to read even with our decoding strategies I've rewritten parts of the text to help us comprehend it more easily we need to understand what we are reading if we want to use the content or information in our writing let's read aloud the rewritten text to learn about the Michigan Sugar Company i would love for you to read along with me the farmers that make up the Michigan Sugar Company plant and harvest sugar beats each year they grow about 4.5 million tons of sugar beets across 140,000 to 150,000 acres of land the sugar beats are processed at factories in Bay City Carroll Cwell and Cebuing and turned into 1.2 billion pounds of sugar the Michigan Sugar Company impacts the economy at the processing facilities machines separate sugar from the beets the extraction process involves washing slicing diffusion filtration crystallization drying and cooling the sugar is packaged into bags and shipped to customers michigan Sugar Company is the third largest of eight sugar beet processing companies in the United States michigan is one of 11 states where sugar beats are grown to make sure I understand I will reread this passage and highlight key words and quotes rereading and highlighting text helps us as readers i highlighted in yellow the following key points I want to paraphrase in my summary michigan Sugar Company Sugarbeat Farmers 4.5 million tons 140,000 to 150,000 acres economy separate sugar packaged into bags customers third largest company i highlighted in green direct quotes I want to use because I don't think I can paraphrase them very well or put them into my own words as a reader and a writer now I need to write about my reading to show what I learned i'm going to paraphrase some of the content into my own words also I'm going to use direct quotes for two of the sentences let's read what I wrote the Michigan Sugar Company has sugar beat farmers who grow 4.5 million tons of sugar beets every year across 140,000 to 150,000 acres the farmers send the sugar beats to facilities the sugar beats are processed at factories in Bay City Carroll Cwell and Syeline and turned into 1.2 2 billion pounds of sugar at the factories sugar beats are separated into sugar the extraction process involves washing slicing diffusion filtration crystallization drying and cooling the farmers are important to Michigan's economy because customers buy the packaged sugar notice when I use quotation marks if I am using the author's words exactly I have to frame those words in quotation marks to show my reader that this is copy text not paraphrase what's the difference between paraphrasing and quoting when we paraphrase we rewrite what we read in our own words i like to use a bulleted list of my own notes because if I rewrite while looking at my own notes I don't copy the text when we quote an author we copy exactly what they wrote and we put those words in quotation marks shout out if the example is a paraphrase or quote right paraphrase yes quote how do you know that's right there are quotation marks when we know more about a topic we can write a summary about that topic based on what we read and understood using metacognition summaries include paraphrasing and direct quotes writing about our reading helps us learn readers and writers we worked hard today just like sugarbeat farmers work very hard to bring sugar to our grocery stores thank you for joining us if you want more fun ways to practice literacy skills don't forget to subscribe to the Michigan Learning channel and be sure to check the description below for links to activity guides resources and more [Music] [Applause]