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Inferring
By Jaime

I start out my inferring unit using poems by Douglas Florainne (spelling). His short poems are about animals and I cover the animals name so the children have to infer what the animal is.

I THINK THAT it is a _____________
because _________________.
I do several of these poems as a whole group and then have them work through a few poems with a partner.
The language above is the framework I model the entire time I teaching inferring.
I also use a four column chart with the captions listed below during read aloud. I model how the text leads to a question, and we take our schema and the text

and squish it together to make an inference.

TextQuestionSchema Inference

I also do inferring of character traits and big ideas. My visual for this unit is a ven diagram with text on one side, schema on the other, and the inference being the overlapping piece. Debbie Miller has written a book that has great ideas on teaching reading comprehension.

Jaime