Synthesizing+Charts

Second grade
This is a chart of a think-aloud I did about the Making Meaning book Big Al. The swirly symbol is our icon for synthesizing: it signifies the whole universe or the ripples of a rock thrown in the water, or layers. So the swirls got wider as we got deeper into the story and I uncovered more and more layers (I drew it as we went to illustrate it for students.)