What it is. Notes from two texts are merged by idea, and where they disagree is marked.
Why our test works. Organizing by source is the natural move and it makes the notes useless for writing, because the essay will be organized by IDEA. Asking where they disagree also plants the first seed of source evaluation, which Grade 7 will build on properly.
Leans on. Lessons 14 and 26.
Watch for. If the two sources agree on everything, the exercise teaches nothing. Choose texts that differ somewhere.
Combine notes from two texts into one outline. The worked example is the one you build on the board: Teacher takes notes from two short texts and merges them, showing where they agree and whe The class reads Writing Book 5, p.75 — our own page, so a child who was absent can still get the lesson.
You open by saying where this sits — what it follows and what it is part of — in one sentence, and then you give them the reason it matters, in your own words, for about ten seconds. Before anything new, sixty seconds of retrieval on U11 set 1: ask, take the answers from boards rather than hands so you see all thirty, and do not re-teach — note who has lost it and carry on.
Then you do one yourself, building it on the board and leaving it up: Teacher takes notes from two short texts and merges them, showing where they agree and where they differ. The board copy is what they look back at when they stall, so it stays there for the whole lesson.
The We-do is the main whiteboard moment of the lesson — short answers, boards up on your signal, every child visible at once. Class decides where a fact from source B belongs in source A's outline. If the answer is a whole sentence rather than a word, take it on their notebooks instead, because a sentence written on a whiteboard is written once and destroyed.
They open Writing Book 5 to page 75 and read it with you. Stop at the worked example and let them look at it.
Exit directions in full, standing still, before anyone moves. Then they work alone: Outline two short texts into one set of notes. Mark where they disagree.
You close on the exit direction — Name one place the sources disagreed. — taken from every child before anyone stands, and then the line you want them to still have tomorrow: Two sources, one set of notes.
If the two sources agree on everything, the exercise teaches nothing. Choose texts that differ somewhere.