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Into the Book has some lessons for teaching synthesizing. I like that at the bottom of this webpage it describes the gradual release of responsibility. It is always a great reminder of how to lead kids to be independent. In Second Grade, for synthesizing, we focus on step one and two. http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/synthesizing/syn_lessonplans.html
This is a website for trading cards. I use these to discuss scientists and for Black History month. You can modify the templates to make them more appealing.
I found the synthesizing lesson on Like to Read.com. I liked this because she used all of the teaching she had done all year with reading strategies and with learning strategies. She also defined synthesizing as a step beyond summarizing and used a story to demonstrate with the kids.
As students become more proficient readers, they need to move from retelling a story to summarizing to synthesizing. This is a cute story and activity to model each step.
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July 30, 2009 at 10:00 am
Here are more strategy posters that I found:
http://www.mandygregory.com/Documents/9ComprehensionPosters%5B2%5D.doc
July 30, 2009 at 11:39 am
Into the Book has some lessons for teaching synthesizing. I like that at the bottom of this webpage it describes the gradual release of responsibility. It is always a great reminder of how to lead kids to be independent. In Second Grade, for synthesizing, we focus on step one and two.
http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/synthesizing/syn_lessonplans.html
July 30, 2009 at 10:24 am
Great road map analogy visual:
Synthesizing activity:
Click to access syn_lp_SynthesizingActivity.pdf
July 30, 2009 at 10:27 am
This is an Author’s study that is very extensive.
Click to access 3_7_author_study_lit_response_reading_lessons_say.pdf
July 30, 2009 at 10:40 am
This is a nice organizer to help kids understand that synthesizing is building on prior knowledge.
Click to access syn_HatGraphicOrg.pdf
July 30, 2009 at 11:44 am
This is a website for trading cards. I use these to discuss scientists and for Black History month. You can modify the templates to make them more appealing.
http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/trading_card.doc
July 30, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I like the writing prompts that are on page 5. It would be a good way of giving students options when writing in their response journals.
Click to access synthesize9.PDF
July 30, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I found the synthesizing lesson on Like to Read.com. I liked this because she used all of the teaching she had done all year with reading strategies and with learning strategies. She also defined synthesizing as a step beyond summarizing and used a story to demonstrate with the kids.
http://www.liketoread.com/read_strats_synthesize.php
July 30, 2009 at 12:33 pm
This website provides writing prompts for writing Technical Processes which will be good for writing up lab reports.
Click to access Writing%20gr%208%20prompt%201.pdf
July 30, 2009 at 12:48 pm
As students become more proficient readers, they need to move from retelling a story to summarizing to synthesizing. This is a cute story and activity to model each step.
http://www.liketoread.com/read_strats_synthesize.php
July 30, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Who doesn’t like putting a puzzle together? Especially face down–the puzzle; not you.
http://www.thelearningpad.net/id72.html
the second lesson
July 30, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I know we have seen these before, but here is the quick info page on synthesis.
Click to access SynthesizingTeacherPagefromCarolyn.pdf
July 30, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Tips for helping students to synthesize:
http://wvde.state.wv.us/strategybank/documents/TipsforHelpingYourChildSynthesizeInformation.doc
Great idea for an overall theme to present the strategies to students in a meaningful way.
http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/PlantingALiteracyGardenTrainingPowerPointfromMichele.ppt
July 30, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I found this link to a website with a video students can view during our muscles unit.
http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=1&article_set=59302&cat_id=20607
I found this lesson on synthesizing on Negro League Baseball
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Writing/WCP0216.html