Synthesize+Information

Synthesize Information TEKS
 * Comprehension-Summarize information in text,maintaining meaning and logical order

Synthesize Think Aloud/Modeling of Strategy: Students will observe the teacher modeling of summarizing information in the text.
 * Choose a short text to model.
 * Say: You know how it is hard for readers to remember everything they read. When good readers read they read for the gist, they are reading for the most essential information, the bigger ideas. To do this we must pare down some of information by deleting details and and come up with the big picture.
 * For example, if I was going to summarize the Three Bears I wouldn't have to say every detail. That is too much information. The gist recounts important information and gives us the big ideas, sometimes the lesson or moral of a story. So a synthesis/summary of the three bears would be: A girl wandered into an empty house and caused a lot of mischief. When the owners, a family of bears found her, she learned the heard way not to go into a strangers house when no one is home.
 * When we synthesize we pare down the information and eliminate details an come up with the big picture.
 * Synthesizing is a strategy that helps us change our thinking when we read, Notice how I said, Goldilocks learned the hard way. That is what I am thinking after I hear the story. When we synthesize information, we combine our thinking with other information to come up with the big idea.
 * Demonstrate how to sift through the information deleteing the details to arrive at the gist.
 * Engage students by talking through how we arrive at the gist and respond with our thinking.


 * Sentence Stems for Think Aloud**
 * 1) This story or passage is really about My views on this are¦
 * 2) My opinion of _ is¦
 * 3) I first thought about the topic. Now I think
 * 4) I've read a lot of information. Let me stop and think about this for a minute.
 * 5) My judgment of this information is
 * 6) From this information, I can generalize that


 * Comprehension Strategy Introduction Model**
 * 1) Decide on a strategy to model.
 * 2) Choose a short text or section of text.
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read the text ahead of time. Mark locations where you will stop and model the strategy.
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">State your purpose—name the strategy and explain the focus of your think-alouds.
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read the text aloud to students and think aloud at the designated points.
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you conduct a shared reading experience, have students highlight words and phrases that show evidence of your thinking by placing self-stick notes in the book.
 * 7) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reinforce the think-alouds with follow-up lessons in the same text or with others.

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