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Inferring | Reading Strategies
Learn how to find clues within text to help build a deeper understanding of what you read.
Crash Course Kids
What is an inference? (Charlotte’s Web): Crash Course Kids Literature #1
New ReviewReading books can be fun, but there’s so much more to discover beneath the surface. In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we’ll use our background knowledge and story evidence to make inferences about E.B. White’s novel,...
Curated Video
#8 How to Make Inferences While You Read (Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you how to make inferences while you read. A lot of times, the author doesn't tell us directly what is happening so we have to make inferences. I teach a simple and easy process to help you understand what you are...
Curated Video
Drawing Inferences from Box Plots
In this video, the teacher explains how to draw inferences by analyzing data on a box plot. They review the different components of a box plot and how they can help make predictions about the data.
The Learning Depot
Finding Implied Main Idea | Reading Strategies for Better Comprehension Skills
The implied main idea is not clearly stated in any one sentence in the passage, but it is always there. You just can't take your finger and point at it or take a highlighter and highlight it. The implied main idea comes together in your...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Don J. Leu - New Literacies
Donald J. Leu is the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Leu directs the New Literacies Research Lab. He is an international authority on literacy education, especially the...
Curated Video
Making Character Inferences
A video titled “Making Character Inferences” which introduces the definition of an inference and reviews methods to help you make inferences about characters in a story.
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Compare Populations Using Median
In this video, students are taught to read and interpret dot and line plots, and use them to estimate the median of each population. By comparing the medians, students can make inferences about the data and draw conclusions about which...
The Learning Depot
How Authors Describe Characters: Direct vs Indirect Characterization
When taking a reading comprehension test, have you ever been stumped by a question asking about how the author or another character feels about a specific character? Or perhaps when reading a novel or story, you’re somewhat confused...
Clarendon Learning
What is an Inference? | Making Inferences for Kids | Inference and Reading Comprehension Practice
What is an Inference? Making an inference simply means to use what you already know to make a guess about something that you don’t know. It is a very important reading comprehension skill and throughout this video we help your kids and...
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Inferring characters’ thoughts and motives
Pupil outcome: I can infer characters’ thoughts and motives based on their actions and the words they say. Key learning points: - When we read, we make inferences based on evidence. - We can infer what characters' thoughts might be based...
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Reading Strategy: Making Inferences or Drawing Conclusions: How Teachers Prepare for Christmas
Check out what I do to prepare for Christmas. I will show you how I do it all. Stay tuned until riddle 5 to see a spectacular event.
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School Laboratory (Make line plots to display measurements in fractions of a unit and use addition and/or subtraction to solve problems based on information presented in line plots)
Draw a line plot of the volume measurement of liquids found in the school’s laboratory and answer questions about them.
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Engaging with the opening chapter of 'The BFG'
Pupil outcome: I can read aloud and discuss the opening chapter of 'The BFG’. Key learning points: - Reading aloud involves using an expressive voice, varying volume, emphasising keywords and using facial expressions. - Roald Dahl uses...
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Analysing character in an unseen extract from Bilan's 'Asha and the Spirit Bird'
Pupil outcome: I can make precise inferences about characters and explain quotations in detail. Key learning points: - Magical-realist texts have a real world setting in which magic happens. - Use the first read of an unseen extract to...
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Building comprehension of 'Princess Sophia Duleep Singh: My Story' through rich discussions
Pupil outcome: I can answer a range of comprehension questions on 'Princess Sophia Duleep Singh: My Story'. Key learning points: - Suffragettes were campaigning for the right for women to vote; this was something that was not permitted...
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Line Plots for Fractions
Make line plots to display measurements in fractions of a unit.
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Drawing Conclusion
Drawing Conclusions teaches how to use clues from informational text to draw conclusions.
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Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady'
Pupil outcome: I can make inferences about an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady' and respond to the use of imagery. Key learning points: - Making predictions about a text is useful because it allows you to consider the impact of...
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Understanding and summarising perspectives
Pupil outcome: I can summarise a writer's viewpoint. Key learning points: - Key information can be used to make predictions and draw conclusions before you read a text. - Skimming and scanning can be a useful strategy for finding the key...
Curated Video
Why AI doesn't speak every language
It could learn them all. But will it? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Large language models are astonishingly good at understanding and producing language. But there’s an often...
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Probability Statistics - The Foundations of Machine Learning - Applying Entropy - Coding Decision Trees for Machine Learning
In this video, you will learn how to apply Entropy by coding decision trees for machine learning. This clip is from the chapter "Applications to the Real World" of the series "Probability / Statistics - The Foundations of Machine...
Townsend Press
Inferences
A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage...