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inferencing
By imalithc

I agree that kids miss major parts of novels because they fail to practice good inference skills.

In order for the students to simply understand what "inference" means I have kids act out scenes that make the other students infer the reason for the person acting in such a manner. For example, I'll give a girl a card that says "A girl says something mean to you in the hall and you do not have time to respond. Walk abruptly into the room. Let out a deep breath of frustration and slap your notebook down on the desk as you sit down.

Then the kids try to guess why how she is feeling and why.