Ready to have all of your resources for teaching “Synthesis & Details” in one place? This is your one-stop shop for teaching your students about nonfiction text features and how to synthesize factual information from a text. I’ve included lesson plan ideas, a writing station, a digital station and an interactive slideshow!

What’s Included?

A Teacher’s Guide to Synthesis & Details

When it’s time to teach students how to synthesize new information and identify key details, are you searching or scrambling to find the right resources? I have good news.. I’ve created a teacher’s guide of standards aligned resources to help you teach your students how to master these two skills.

I give you whole group lessons, mentor texts, anchor charts and station ideas all in one place!

This teacher’s guide will:

· Give you a clear understanding of the comprehension strategy: Synthesize Information and Evaluate Details

· Save you planning time because you are no longer having to search for and piece together different resources

· Save you planning & instructional time because you are re-purposing activities into station ideas

This teacher’s guide ultimately provides you with done-for-you lesson plans!

What’s Included:

· Standards Overview Page

· 4 Whole Group Activities

· 2 Anchor Chart Ideas

· 4 Mentor Text Ideas with Comprehension Focus Questions

· 4 Station Ideas (at least one is a repurposed whole group activity)

· 4 Digital Activities

· 1 Digital Anchor Chart

· 2 Reading Response Pages

· Sentence Stems and Questions to use Whole Group, Small Group & Book Clubs

Synthesis & Details Slideshow

Looking for a fun and engaging way to introduce synthesis and details to your students? This interactive presentation can be used in a face to face classroom or for distance learning in Google Classroom or Seesaw and will allow students to understand the fundamentals of how to synthesize information and evaluate key details before they apply those skills to a text. 

What's Included: 

19 Slide Presentation

What is Synthesis?

· How to compare two texts

· How to take a pause to synthesize

· Sentence Stems

What are details?

· Guided Practice

· Why do we need details?

**4 practice problems for identifying what is the same and what is different between two photographs (comparing and synthesizing information and details)**

Nonfiction Text Features Writing Station

Do you need an easy, fun way to build a foundation for students to understand the purpose of nonfiction text features? In this station, students are given a nonfiction text features and they have to explain its purpose and why an author would use it.

The great thing about this product is that it can serve as a year-round self-sustaining station to support the reading strategy of making connections.

**Includes 12 nonfiction text feature cards**

· Title page

· Headings

· Table of Contents

· Glossary

· Index

· Diagram

· Photograph

· Illustration

· Caption

· Map

· Timeline

· Bar Graph

Nonfiction Text Features Digital Station

Do you need an easy, fun way to build a foundation for students to predict author's purpose? In this station, students are given book cover and title and they have to explain their prediction as to why the author wrote the text. This builds an early foundation of providing evidence to support a prediction.

This activity can be assigned through Google Slides/Google Classroom or SeeSaw!

The great thing about this product is that it can serve as a year-round self-sustaining station to support the reading strategy of identifying author’s purpose.

**Includes 12 nonfiction text feature cards**

· Title page

· Headings

· Table of Contents

· Glossary

· Index

· Diagram

· Photograph

· Illustration

· Caption

· Map

· Timeline

· Bar Graph

Great for:

· whole group lessons

· station activities after a lesson

· self-sustaining literacy or writing station

For Texas teachers, this product relates to the following TEKS:

1.6G Evaluate details to determine what is most important with adult assistance.

1.6H Synthesize information to create new understanding with adult assistance.

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