Synthesis

Teachers and students can create lessons using this app; Educreations. This is an app that is a whiteboard that you can create lessons by drawing or you can use pictures like I did below. Students can make lessons: such as explaining place value etc 

My students watched the short video on synthesis from Educreations that I created. Next,  I modeled the strategy using one of Chris Van Allsburg's books.  As I read the book, I used metacognitive stem, I'M THINKING, and stopped at various parts and said "I'm thinking  _______, Now I'm thinking ______, Now I'm really thinking _______, I'm getting it now, I'm thinking _______".  Then, I read another Chris Van Allsburg's book and stopped at various points and had students write on whiteboards what they were thinking.  Finally, students will practice the strategy during guided reading.