Strategy 9: Synthesis
Synthesis is a complex, evolving process where a reader constructs and manipulates meaning during and after reading. For teachers, synthesis should be described as when children use all their comprehension skills, that have been explicitly taught and modelled, to construct their own individual meaning from a piece of text. Synthesis cannot be described simply as a skill – rather synthesis is an understanding that reading is not the deployment of a sole skill but the need to use a variety of strategies continuously in order to construct meaning from text.
If one was to simplify synthesis, it may be described as summarization whereby readers retell the story. However, this oversimplifies what synthesis is. In a way, while the end product is important, synthesis is more about the process.
The synthesis CPM involves pupils joining their index finger on one hand to their thumb on their other hand.
Synthesis is a complex, evolving process where a reader constructs and manipulates meaning during and after reading. For teachers, synthesis should be described as when children use all their comprehension skills, that have been explicitly taught and modelled, to construct their own individual meaning from a piece of text. Synthesis cannot be described simply as a skill – rather synthesis is an understanding that reading is not the deployment of a sole skill but the need to use a variety of strategies continuously in order to construct meaning from text.
If one was to simplify synthesis, it may be described as summarization whereby readers retell the story. However, this oversimplifies what synthesis is. In a way, while the end product is important, synthesis is more about the process.
The synthesis CPM involves pupils joining their index finger on one hand to their thumb on their other hand.
