Inferrencing

Inferrencing is a reading comprehension strategy that helps the students to understand the story better. When a student uses their schema, which is their mental file, along with clues from the text, they are inferring. This past week, my students have been using inferrencing to find the meaning of unknown words. Here are some activities that will help you and your students become masters at this skill.

READING: KWL

The Mixed Up Chameleon: fun practice

D = DIRECT

• direct and activate students' thinking to prior readings; scanning the title, chapter headings, illustrations, and other materials. (e.g."Given this title, what do you think the passage will be about?").
  R = READING.
• Students read up to the first pre-selected stopping point, then prompt the students with questions about specific information and asks them to rethink their predictions and change them if necessary. continue.

T = THINKING.

• At the end of each section, students go back through the text and think about their predictions. Students should verify or modify their predictions by finding supporting statements in the text. The teacher asks questions such as:
  What do you think about your predictions now?
  What did you find in the text to prove your predictions?
  What did you we read in the text that made you change your predictions?

WRITING: BIOGRAPHIES

M A T H :TOOL CHEST

ADDING

3 NUMBER STORY COMPARISONS

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION NUMBER STORIES

MULTIPLES OF EQUAL GROUPS :INTERACTIVE CREATION