Synthesize

Synthesize: a beyond the text strategic action, readers adjust present understandings to accommodate new knowledge.

Minilesson Resources

Synthesize : ideas from smekenseducation.com to have students to show what they have learned from their reading through writing activities.


Reading Strategy: Synthesizing: a video from PBSLearningMedia.org of a fourth grade class participating in a synthesizing minilesson.

Synthesizing: from busyteacherscafe.com, resources to support teaching synthesizing.

Anchor Charts

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Grade Level Expectations

(from Continuum of Literacy Learning, Fountas and Pinnell, 2012)

PreK

• identify what reader already knows relative to information in the text
• identify new information in text and pictures

Kindergarten

• identify what reader already knows relative to information in the text
• identify new information in text and pictures
• acquire and report new information from text
• talk about what the reader already knows about a topic or character prior to reading
• show evidence in the text of new ideas or information

First Grade

• differentiate between what is known and new information
• demonstrate learning new content from reading (through talk or writing)
• express changes in ideas after reading a text

Second Grade

• differentiate between what is known and new information
• demonstrate learning new content fro reading (through talk or writing)
• demonstrate changing perspective as events in a story unfold
• synthesize information across a longer text
• express changes in ideas after reading a text

Third Grade

• differentiate between what is known and new information
• mentally form categories of related information and revise them as new information is acquired across the text
• demonstrate learning new content from reading
• express changes in ideas or opinions after reading a text and say why
• demonstrate changing perspective as events in a story unfold, particularly applied to people and cultures different from the reader’s own
• synthesize information across a longer text

Fourth Grade

• mentally form categories of related information and revise them as new information is acquired across the text
• demonstrate learning new content from reading
• express changes in ideas or opinions after reading a text and say why
• acquire new content and perspective through reading both fiction and nonfiction texts about diverse cultures, times, and places
• incorporate new knowledge to better understand characters and plots from material previously read when reading chapters, connected short stories, or sequels
• draw conclusions
• integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to discuss or write about it

Fifth Grade