![]() This commission directly supports us as a small business and ensures that we can continue to create high-quality content for upper elementary teachers, like yourself! As always, the products shared are tried, true, and tested. If you purchase through one of these links, The Teacher Next Door, LLC receives a few cents on the dollar. This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. The books listed below have interesting and thought provoking stories your students will enjoy! One reading tip I like to share with students is to stop every now and then to think about their reading (being metacognitive) and to notice how their thinking has changed since they started the story, or since they paused to think the last time. This set of sentence starters helps students to see the progression of how their own thinking changes as they get new information from the text. Here is the sentence frame I like to use for synthesizing: At first I was thinking … Then I was thinking … Now I am thinking … Synthesizing often occurs with longer pieces of literature, like chapter books, but it can also be modeled using picture books. ![]() This ongoing process takes place as a reader’s thinking is changed as he/she learns and grows. This higher-level type of thinking occurs when students combine their own schema with information from the text to create a new level of understanding. ![]() Synthesizing is one of the more difficult reading comprehension strategies to teach. ![]()
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