How can you tell when a story takes place? Use context clues to infer the time of day and seasons of five short reading passages. Kids then note each passage's time period as daytime or nighttime, as well as winter or summer.

Concepts

setting, making inferences, inferences, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add to a reading comprehension assessment
• Use as a homework assignment or in a language arts center
• Have kids write their own passages with hints about the setting of each story, but no explicit details

Pros

• Provides multiple-choice answers for each question
• Includes an answer key for quick assessment

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.3.1 RL.4.1 RL.5.1