Synthesis Lesson with Riddle

Synthesize Lesson

8th Grade Advanced ELA

Open Ended

Write your initial thinking here:

Open Ended

Update your thinking after learning about these new pieces of information.

Open Ended

Update your thinking again, based on new information you just saw:

Open Ended

Update your thinking for that last time. Why does the woman do this? There will be no more new clues!

Poll

Select the response that is most honest: Did you notice that you naturally updated your thinking as you gained more information?

• NO, I was unable to update my thinking based on the clues

• Yes, I did this naturally and I came closer to, or guessed, the solution

• Yes, I did this but my ideas were far off base

Also

You can synthesize and still be incorrect in your thinking.

This skill isn't bulletproof against WRONG THINKING (called "logical fallacies" or flaws in logic/thinking)

Let's test our reading comprehension knowledge

Yes, this stuff will NEVER go away.

There is a very valid reason you see the same ELA learning targets from KG to senior year (and beyond, if truthful)...because as the texts get more complex, you need to update your skills/thinking strategies to continue growing and developing.

Otherwise, you may wind up as an adult who still interprets the world like the 4th grader you once were...YIKES!

Multiple Choice

To combine new information with what you already know to create meaning.

• paraphrase

• synthesize

• summarize

Multiple Choice

To retell a large section of text or story in your own words and reducing it to the bare essentials.

• paraphrase

• synthesize

• summarize

Multiple Choice

To collect information on a topic from multiple sources and be able to go beyond a summary, to analyze or interpret it.

• evaluate

• synthesize

• support

• infer

Multiple Choice

To strengthen or substantiate an argument or idea by providing facts, details, examples and other information is to...

• evaluate

• synthesize

• support

• infer

Multiple Choice

To update your thinking in a new, deeper or changed way is to:

• evaluate

• synthesize

• support

• infer

Multiple Choice

If you are asked to only include the main details/ideas about a text, you should...

• summarize

• synthesize

• paraphrase

• infer

Multiple Choice

If you are asked to show that you understand the exact words of your material from a source/text, the "gold standard" skill is to...

• summarize

• synthesize

• paraphrase

• infer

Multiple Choice

To form by combining parts or elements; to bring together information from multiple source is...

• summarize

• synthesize

• paraphrase

• infer

Multiple Choice

To take a close look at the parts of something, in order to understand it better, is to...

• summarize

• synthesize

• analyze

• infer

Multiple Choice

Which word best fits into the blank?

I _______________ on the text to show the thinking going on in my head.

• paraphrase

• annotate

• synthesize

Multiple Choice

Which word best fits into the blank?

The teacher asked her class to _________________ the paragraph so they could learn it better by putting the ideas into their own words.

• paraphrase

• annotate

• synthesize

Multiple Choice

To combine new information with what you already know to create meaning.

• paraphrase

• synthesize

• summarize