Making Inferences
It's Scooby-Doo Thinking!
You Can Practice Inferring With:
- realia (obects and materials from your everyday life)
- images
- wordless books
- book jackets
- song lyrics
- poetry
Anchor Chart Ideas
Comprehension Toolkit Connection-Lesson 10 and 11
Tanny McGregor Lesson Ideas
Refer to these pages (a copy of these pages will be in your mailbox) for lesson ideas to introduce inferencing and extend on the topic:
Garbage Lesson (This is a fun one!) Pages 49-50
Shoes Lesson Pages 52-54 (anchor chart below goes with this lesson)
Formula for Inferencing
BK (Background Knowledge) + TC (Text Clues) = I (Inference)
This comes from Comprehension Toolkit.
The second anchor chart goes with this strategy.
Sensory Exercises (from Tanny McGregor)
- Use magazines (Page 55)
- Use music (Page 56)
- Use artwork (Pages 56-57)
- Wordless books by Istvan Banyai (Pages 57-58)
Inferring Song (Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
Do I infer?
The answer's "yes"
I infer when
I read text
When I infer,
it's a smart guess
When I infer,
my thinking is best
I infer what
happens next
I infer when
I read text
Lyrics from "Reading Strategies" CD by Miles and Tanny McGregor