Making Inferences by Analyzing Key Ideas and Details
Making Inferences by Analyzing Key Ideas and Details
Objectives
In this lesson, students will demonstrate understanding of text by making inferences when reading nonfiction. Students will:
- become familiar with the components of an inference.
- make inferences based on background knowledge and clues from the text.
Essential Questions
How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
What is this text really about?
- How do strategic readers create meaning from informational and literary text?
- What is this text really about?
- How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
Vocabulary
- Inference: A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct statement in a text.
Duration
60–90 minutes/2–3 class periods
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Materials
- “An Opossum Named Poppy” by Fay Munier, available at http://www.thefreelibrary.com/An+opossum+named+Poppy%3A+our+visitor+turned+out+to+be+a+garden+helper.-a0203952516 This narrative nonfiction passage was chosen because it provides opportunities to make inferences. Other books that could be used include the following:
- Teammates by Peter Golenbock. Voyager Books, Harcourt, Inc., 1992.
- Bat Loves the Night by Nicola Davies. Candlewick, 2008.
- George Washington’s Mother by Jean Fritz. Grosset and Dunlap, 1992.
Poetry that supports making inferences includes the following:
- “Smart” from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. HarperCollins, 2004.
- Teachers may substitute other books to provide a range of reading and level of text complexity. Alternative books should include narrative nonfiction texts that provide opportunities to make inferences.
- Inferring Game activity sheet (L-3-4-2_Inferring Game and KEY.docx), one copy for each group of three or four students
- student copies of Making Inferences Assessment (L-3-4-2_Making Inferences Assessment.docx)
- student copies of Inferring Practice worksheet (L-3-4-2_Inferring Practice Worksheet.docx)
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Final 05/01/2013