Synthesis Essay Live Coaching [S6 E174]

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We recently hosted a live training session with members of the Brave New Teaching community and let’s just say, it was pretty awesome! During this training, we focused on teaching and guiding students through the process of synthesis writing.

So today in this podcast episode, we’re bringing you part of that live session. You’ll hear us talking through writing a prompt, using essential questions, and other things to keep in mind when you are crafting a prompt for a synthesis writing assignment. Plus, we give a couple of different options for outlining. 

After listening, if you want to hear more, you can access the full training where we walk through some real-life examples of writing, sentence frames, helping our students understand how to synthesize, and more. Grab the full coaching session here!

Topics Discussed:

  • Why teaching synthesis writing can become very overwhelming very quickly

  • What to consider when designing an essential question

  • Two “to what extend” prompts that will help your students build language and make arguments

  • How to help your students arrive at a synthesis assessment confidently 

  • Two ways to approach any synthesis question

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