Thinkathon! Summaries, Conclusions, Syntheses, Evaluations and Judgements

This resource is designed to demystify summaries, conclusions, syntheses, evaluations and judgments for both students and teachers.  It includes handy references helping to align thinking with reading on, between, beyond and behind the lines, and related vocabulary such as "interpretation", "inferencing" and "discussion"!
 
This is suitable for the study of both fiction and non-fiction texts.
 
See the blog and vlog here if it helps!
 
This resource includes:
⭐ A student booklet with information, sentences starters and activities.
⭐ A teacher booklet, replicating the student version but with example ANSWERS.
 
You and your students will enjoy:
❤️ The handy one-page overview (also available in our freebies library - log in to the website to join our team and access it.)
❤️ Bullet pointed descriptions that aid understanding of each concept.
❤️ Sentence starters / prompts to help students write in each phase.
❤️ Activities that use a range of texts - and example ANSWERS too!
❤️ The self-differentiating nature of moving from summarising, to concluding and/or synthesizing, to evaluating, to judging - push as far as you feel able.
 
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page.   This means your resource: 
Is completely editable.
Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅  Literary Judgements - a set of 10 mini lessons (set 16 of our mini lesson series)
✅  Fly Spy - reading behind the lines (a fun activity)
✅  The Quirks of English and the Ladder of Luuurve
✅  Sift and Lift - Senior close reading skills
 
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