English · Stage 6
In Your Own Words
Study & composition skill — read a fact, close the book, and rewrite it in fresh words that keep the meaning, then note where it came from (title and author)
✦ English📘 Stage 6 · S6⏱ ~10 min🧒 Ages 10–12★ Free to start
I can put information into my own words and say where I found it.
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Kavi Closes the Book
Kavi the owl finds a brilliant fact in a library book. Instead of copying it, he closes the book, thinks hard, and says the idea again in his own fresh words. "Now it's really in my head!" he hoots — then he writes down the title and the author, "so everyone knows where I found it."
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What your child will learn
1Read it, cover it, say it your wayRead the sentence, close the book, then write the same idea in fresh words. Keep the meaning true — just change the words. Tap a row to hear it.
2Copying vs your own wordsBoth start from the same fact, but only one is honest writing. Tap each card.
3How to say where a fact came fromEven in your own words, you still name your source. Tap each part to hear Kavi explain it.
4Which ones are in your own words?
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A peek inside
A book says: 'The Moon has no light of its own.' Put it into your own words.
keep the meaning (the Moon makes no light itself), change the words
Try this at home: Does putting a fact in your own words mean keeping the same meaning?
Ready to play and learn?
Start the free interactive lesson, or print the handout for screen-free play.
Part of English · Stage 6 · S6 on KAVI Academy — a secular, whole-child learning platform for ages 5–12.