Synthesizing from Multiple Sources by Eunice Hong

email ehong@hartdistrict.org

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District Common Core Anchor Standards

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Integrating and evaluating multiple sources of information in different media or formats/texts

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See below for activities/strategies/assignments that help our students do this!

Common Core State Standards

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Click on the orange section and find your grade level.

Synthesis Essay Question Worksheet

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Read through this PowerPoint. Try using the graphic organizer here to introduce and practice synthesis writing.

Understanding synthesis

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DOK Chart

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Here is a chart that explains how to apply different Depth of Knowledge (the "new" Bloom's Taxonomy) levels in the classroom.

OPTIC

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Try OPTIC to help students analyze texts that are images! This is great practice because images may come out on the SBAC.

OPTIC Sample Activity

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Try having students practice analyzing images with OPTIC using these slides, or find other images of your choice!

Synthesis Essay Practice Template

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You can pair this practice with OPTIC and/or SOAPSTone!

SOAPSTone PPT

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This is a simple PowerPoint made to go over what a SOAPSTone is with your students.

SOAPSTone

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Having students identify/focus on the subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, and tone of each text is critical. This chart may help students in doing close reading by identifying each element in a text.

Synthesis requires students to do explicit/implicit reading of the text

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Try using this simple chart with your students to identify facts (explicit) and the assumptions (implicit) that come with them.

Student Sample of Explicit/Implicit Reading Chart

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CATCH Annotating

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Here is one method to have students practice conversing with the text in order to make generalizations, inferences, judgments, questions, etc. in order to synthesize.

Chunking method

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Try this method of chunking so that students may do a closer reading of the text from which they are synthesizing!

Please scroll below.

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