Mini-lessons for dividing and interconnecting inferences
FALL
- Connect chronological events to form predictions
"Cause and effect timeline"
- Teach media literacy by analyzing advertisements
"Inference advertisements"
- Practice making inferences while stopping during the story
"Prediction basketball"
WINTER
- Model predictions from specific word signals in text
"Prediction signals"
- Dissect inferences by separating text and background knowledge
"T + B = I Inference machines" Current lesson design:**Satire/Inference presentation
SPRING
- Re-write a classic text into a different genre
"Text transformation"
- Infer under-the-surface character changes throughout a story line
"External-internal story line"
Note: All titles in quotations come from: Zwiers, J. (2005). Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12: A toolkit of classroom activities. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Mini-lessons for dividing and interconnecting inferences
FALL
- Connect chronological events to form predictions
"Cause and effect timeline"
- Teach media literacy by analyzing advertisements
"Inference advertisements"
- Practice making inferences while stopping during the story
"Prediction basketball"
WINTER
- Model predictions from specific word signals in text
"Prediction signals"
- Dissect inferences by separating text and background knowledge
"T + B = I Inference machines"
Current lesson design:** Satire/Inference presentation
SPRING
- Re-write a classic text into a different genre
"Text transformation"
- Infer under-the-surface character changes throughout a story line
"External-internal story line"
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Note: All titles in quotations come from: Zwiers, J. (2005). Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12: A toolkit of classroom activities. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.