December Reading Strategy Focus

For the months of December and January our Reading Strategy Focus will be on Inferences.

Inferences requires students to pull from personal experience as well as what information was stated in the text. Inferring requires students to use more reasoning skills than recall. Inferences should be spiraled throughout every lesson by using questioning techniques.

Key Words: infer, guess, probably, happened, clues, judging, referring, describe, think, feel, determined, reason, conclusion.

Tips:
-          Making inferences means making a guess.
-          Prior knowledge and details are needed for inferences.
-          If an author does not state all the details, you have to infer or make them up.
-          You can use context clues to infer meaning.

 Attached are a few graphic organizers that you may want to use with your class.

 Some additional resources to use are pictures and clips of commercials.

 

Here is a website with some useful tips, a song, and some activities:

http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/inferring/index.html