Finding and Synthesizing Information

When you synthesize you need to look at what two or more writers say about the same topic.

• True

• False

This step involves "hidden information." It is the information that is NOT stated in the text.

• Making mental images
• Making inferences
• Monitoring reading

This step creates pictures in your mind of what you are reading.

• Visualizing
• Inferring
• Monitoring

What is metacognition?

• creating mental images in your mind
• thinking about your thinking
• wondering as you read
• thinking what the text might be about

Steps to the Inference Strategy: What is the F in INFER?

• Find the meaning
• Fix it all 
• Forget everything
• Find the clues

What goes in the first box? 

• What you already know
• Text Evidence
• Answer/Inference 
• Nothing

What goes in the second box? 

• What you already know
• Text Evidence
• Answer/Inference 
• Nothing

What goes in the third box? 

• What you already know
• Text Evidence
• Answer/Inference 
• Nothing

What is true of think and seek questions? 

• The answer is right there in the text
• The answer is not in the passage. You have to infer.