7.5.H
The Standard
synthesize information to create new understanding
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students combine related information from different parts of a text or from multiple sources. They use those connections to form a conclusion, insight, or claim that is not directly stated.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students connect related details across sections, texts, or media. They state a new insight clearly and support it with accurate evidence from more than one source.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may summarize each source separately without connecting the ideas. They may call a repeated fact a new understanding or make a claim that the evidence does not support.
How to Assess It
- Give students one short passage about teen sleep and one chart showing school attendance. Ask them to write one new conclusion supported by a detail from each source.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs eight evidence cards from two articles; students sort related details, label connections, and write one new conclusion for each group.
Ask, "What can we understand only after reading both texts?" Students answer, then cite one detail from each text.
Play Synthesis Match: teams pair details from different sources and earn a point only when they explain a supported new insight.
Compare cafeteria nutrition labels with a class lunch survey, then write a recommendation supported by one finding from each source.
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