The more we talk about our reading strategies, the more we realize that actually all of the reading strategies go together. Let's look at synthesizing. Technically synthesizing means that you take the information you read and see if it makes you change your thinking from before you started to read. But here's what we realized!
- This is actually the same as making a prediction. You think about what the story will be about before you read, and then you see if you are correct while you read. If you are, you keep going. If not, you change your prediction!
- It's also just like noting details because we're looking for important information that tells us whether our thinking was correct or incorrect.
- It's also just like summarizing because you have to take what you've learned and put it into your own words to make sure you understood it.
- And along the way you ask questions about thing you didn't understand or facts you want to know more about!
So maybe they call the skill synthesizing, but really it's just using ALL of the reading strategies at the same time! If you take a look at the pictures below, you'll see how we synthesized information to learn about a capybara. If you've never seen a capybara, we've included a photo of one at the end. What something you have read about and the reading changed your thinking or helped you learn something new? Please leave a comment and tell us all about it!
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| This was our thinking about capybaras before we did any reading. |
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| As we read we recorded important details that we learned, and we talked about some new vocabulary. |
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| We summarized what we learned to show how differently our thinking is now that we've read. |
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A capybara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wet-capyvara-in-Brazil.jpg |
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