Synthesizing

The Instructional Tech Team of Issaquah School District 411 collaborated to create a baseline of reading strategy template books for grades K-5.

Issaquah Reading Response Journals

- Hook your audience! - Connect the book to your audience - Explain why this is a book worth reading

Record yourself giving a book talk, and add it above

- Explain the setting of the book - Introduce the characters - Retell important events (not the whole story)

- Use props if possible - Connect the book to other books, series, or movies - Leave a cliffhanger!

Synthesizing across a Story

Record a video discussing Connections, Inferences and Ideas

- Original Ideas - Background Knowledge - Connections - Inferences

This exercise can be extended across multiple pages

Record audio or a video of yourself saying/explaining the word

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