Let’s Synthesize: The Pesky New Girl
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What's Inside
Synthesizing is really easy to do, just use your reading tools.
Read this book one on one with a child and talk about how readers put ideas together as they read. The page supports work with synthesizing, reading strategies, and thinking skills in a simple way for first and second grade. It fits well when you want to pause and help a child explain how their thinking changes with new information. Try reading the line once, then ask the child to say what the words mean in their own way.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Let’s Synthesize: The Pesky New Girl into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Synthesizing information
- Reading strategies
- Using reading tools
- Thinking skills
- Language arts vocabulary
Discussion Questions
- 1 The page says synthesizing is really easy to do. What do you think synthesizing means when you read a story?
- 2 What reading tools do you think a reader might use to help make a new idea while reading?
- 3 Why do you think the book calls the girl in the title pesky? What clues could help a reader think about that word?
- 4 When you learn something new in a story, how can it change what you thought before you read?
- 5 Can you tell about a time when you read one part of a story and then changed your mind after reading more?
- 6 How does using your reading tools help you understand a story better from beginning to end?
Words to Learn
- synthesize
- To put pieces of information together to make one new idea.
- reading tools
- Things readers use to help them understand a book, like thinking about clues and what they already know.
- strategy
- A plan you use to help you do something.
- thinking skills
- Ways your brain helps you notice, understand, and solve problems.
- clue
- A small piece of information that helps you figure something out.
- understand
- To know what something means.
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