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Reading Rockets: Strategy Guide: Teaching How Scientists Make Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This guide includes an introductory section about visual evidence, a general overview of how to use this strategy with many science texts, and a plan for teaching how to use visual evidence to make inferences with the Seeds of...
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Siu Edwardsville: Professional Development Center: Lesson Plan: Inference [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson teaching the use of word selection, context, structure, and specific references in making inferences within non-fiction texts.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] An inference is a guess based on the information within a situation. It is valid if the guess is logical. This lesson teaches you how to check a completed draft for relevant...
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Read Works

Read Works: Predicting 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a instructional activity designed to teach students to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The instructional activity is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain...
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Read Works

Read Works: Predicting 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit designed to teach students to make predictions and support them with details from the text. Lessons are based on the books Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and No Roses for Harry! by...
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The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to the Gardener [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart won the Caldecott Honor in 1998. It centres around a set of letters about a young girl who moved from the countryside to the city. In the lessons in this teaching guide, students must make inferences from...
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Wisconsin Educational Communication Board: Into the Book

For Students K - 1st Standards
This series of videos and interactive activities provide an excellent set of resources for teaching or learning the 8 research based reading strategies provided here. After receiving your "key" you can investigate the features inside and...
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Read Works

Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Grade 1: Three Lesson Unit: Character: Actions, Feelings, Looks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans, based on David Shannon's books No, David!, David Gets in Trouble, and David Goes to School. Students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine and describe...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Frost's famous poem, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" as an example of narrative poetry, students explore the artistry and significance of the narrative poem. In addition, this lesson plan provides suggestions for writing...
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PBS

Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an inferencing lesson to introduce the Salem Witch Trials used for teaching The Crucible. Students are presumed to already have background on the Puritans.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama

For Students 7th - 9th
A learning module that teaches students how to understand drama in four mini lessons: Introduction, Inference-Connecting the Dots, Complex Inference-Using Hidden Clues, and Your Turn.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to understand poetry in four mini lessons: Introduction, Finding Meaning from Figurative Devices, Making Inferences Based on Textual Evidence, and Making It Your Own.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th
"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...

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