Inference chart

[isabel's mom]

Sorry to be dense, but I don't understand what you are looking for on
the inference chart, so I'm having a hard time helping Isabel get it
done. Is this from the book she is reading at home at night, or from
a reading lesson in class? She is not sure :( and DID NOT bring home
her text books for me to cover so we can't use them to help : ( : (
Frustratingly yours,
Peggy Holder

[Mr. Bell]

We have been making inferences in class for the last 2 days. To make
an inference we figure something out that the author did not
specifically state, but we figured out. IE if the character is
crying, we infer that they are sad, even though we were never told the
character was sad.

The chart breaks an inference into the 3 aspects:
What the author says (in the example this would be "crying") + what we
know (what we know about what they said, in the example this would be
"sad people cry") = inference (combine the two above to find something
that was not stated; the character is sad).

If you ask questions of about what she is reading, and then ask why
she thinks something, she may realize that what she thinks was not
said, but rather she had to infer it (so it was implied, but we have
not been been using the work imply in class).

To use this skill on their own, the students should make 3 inference
from their SSR books. If they do not during their 20 minutes of SSR
reading, that is fine. If they struggle too much, this is one of the
7 reading strategies (and i think the most difficult) and will be
touched on a large number of times this school year.

James Bell