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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
Identify new ideas and relate them to prior knowledge to determine new understandings.
Discuss specific ideas in the selection that are important to the meaning.
Share examples to demonstrate synthesis.
I can:
identify new ideas and relate them to prior knowledge to determine new understandings.
discuss specific ideas in the selection that are important to the meaning.
share examples to demonstrate synthesis.
(create your own)
Engage - Backround information
Today, we will read part of a non- fiction text called "Mariana Trench", we will learn some new vocabulary words and we will concentrate on the skill of sythesizing information.
When readers synthesize they are aware of how their thinking changes and evolves as they read a text.
Click on the sythesize anchor chart to learn more about sythesizing information as you read.
Practice the Skill
Time for Independent/Group Work/Stations
Optional Activities
Look back at what you wrote on the Prepare to Read page and your Sythesize sheet . Tell a partner two things you learned from this text.
Then work with a group to discuss the questions below.
Review page 20. What comparisons do the authors use to explain the size and depth of the Mariana Trench?
Why do U.S. naval submarines use the Mariana Trench as an expressway?
Reread Page 22-23 "Weird Creatures". What two fish are mentioned in this section? What do you think is the main point the author is trying to make in this section when he talks about theses 2 types of fish?
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