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Summarizing
Inferences
Your learner has identified some learning goals around reading. This lesson plan is designed to introduce your learner to one of the tasks invol involved ved in reading comprehension drawing inferences. Inference refers to drawing conclusions based on your knowledge and understanding of the text you are reading. It is oft often en called reading between the lines. Making inferences means choosing the most likely explanation from the facts you know.
Information on preparing for your lesson can be found in your Tutor Training Manual. READ Saskatoons website (http://www.readsaskatoon.com/volunteers/resources.htm) includes more tips.
Learning Objectives
To understand inferences as a tool to enhance reading comprehension To make inferences using pictures (visualizing) To make inferences by reasoning (reading between the lines) To use the cloze technique to make inferences
Essential Skills
Reading
http://www.readsaskatoon.com/pubs/more_than_words.pdf
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http://www.havefunteaching.com
Activity
Sample Question
5 Minutes
Warm up:
Conversation about week You are sitting in your car and hear a tire screech, a loud crash and glass breaking. You see nothing, but you infer that there has been a car accident. From your experience you know these sounds almost always mean a car accident.
10 Minutes
Discuss learners goals again and write them down in a place both of you can refer to often Explain that making inferences is a strategy to help understand what is being read In this lesson the learner will review three strategies: making inferences using pictures (visualizing), making inferences by reasoning, and using the cloze technique to make inferences
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Essential Skills
Reading
15 Minutes
Can you think of other instances in your life where you have inferred something without actually seeing it?
Learning Objective:
10 Minutes
Break
15 Minutes
Lesson Part B
Learning skill to be presented:
Ask the learner how they will be able to use the information presented in this lesson.
Learning Objective:
To make inferences using pictures (visualizing); to make inferences by reasoning (reading between the lines); to use the cloze technique to make inferences.
Learning Exercise: Refer to the activity sheets included in lesson
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Essential Skills
Reading
5 Minutes
Review work covered in lesson, relate it back to goals, and plan for what learner would like to achieve for next lesson and give homework if learner would like homework. Make sure the homework is based on the skill they would like to build Document this completed task in the Portfolio Items List that was included in the folder you and your learner received at your first meeting
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Essential Skills
Reading
Lesson Part A: Drawing Inferences What is Drawing Inferences? Inference refers to drawing conclusions based on your knowledge and understanding of the text you are reading. It is often called reading between the lines. You do not read the actual event but from what you know, it makes sense to think that it has happened. To infer while reading is to make a guess about something because you have past experience to provide evidence to your conclusion. We make inferences or conclusions in reading but also in other aspects of our life. For example: You are sitting in your car and hear a tire screech, a loud crash and glass breaking. You see nothing, but you infer that there has been a car accident. From your experience you know these sounds almost always mean a car accident. Strategies to Help Draw Inferences:
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Essential Skills
Reading
Activities: 1. Making Inferences Using Pictures Look at the pictures and make inferences based on what you see (adapted from http://www.havefunteaching.com).
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Essential Skills
Reading
2. Making Inferences by Reasoning Read the paragraphs below. Think about when the story takes place. Try to picture the time. Check the best answer that tells when we are in the story.
My mother told me that I had to take out the trash. I put on my coat and mittens and grabbed a flashlight. I flipped on the porch light and headed out to put the trash bags at the curb. I jumped out of bed, threw on my bathing suit and grabbed my flip flops and headed out to the pool. Dad was already out there eating breakfast. Later in the day, mom gave us some ice cream cones. They melted fast. After school, my brother and I put on our boots, hat and gloves and went outside to build a snowman. We had a snowball fight, too. After awhile, we went in and had some hot chocolate that my mom made. Last Saturday night, my cousin slept over at my house. We roasted marshmallows at the bright fire and chased fireflies. We caught 10 fireflies and watched them glow in a jar. Afterwards, we wet them free.
daytime/summer daytime/winter nighttime/summer nighttime/winter daytime/summer daytime/winter nighttime/summer nighttime/winter daytime/summer daytime/winter nighttime/summer nighttime/winter daytime/summer daytime/winter nighttime/summer nighttime/winter
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Another Halloween activity is visiting a _________________________ house, a place that has been ____________________ in a spooky way, with pretend ghosts, monsters, spider ___________, mummies, vampires, ________________ cats, and other scary things.
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