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Reading Strategy 11

“Make inferences and draw conclusions.”

Good readers read between the lines, constantly making inferences and expanding their understanding. They use the information in the text to figure out the message.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Anticipation Guide
  • Bubble Thinking
  • Cause and Effect
  • Character Web
  • Concept Circles
  • Judge and Jury
  • Paper Bag Presentation
  • Picture Book Analysis
  • Question/Answer Relationship
  • Question and Revise
  • Read-Draw-Confirm
  • Reading Like an Author
  • Response Logs/Reflective Journal
  • Sociogram
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking Boxes
  • Thinking While Reading
  • Venn Diagram
  • What’s Inside?

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Primary
  • 10 idées écolos pour sauver ma planète
  • 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Bats at the Library
  • Egg Drop
  • Emu
  • The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
  • I Wish You More
  • Le Zloukch
  • Les forces, c’est quoi?
  • One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab
  • Quatre petits coins de rien de tout
  • Salmon Creek
  • Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
  • Special Delivery
  • Taan’s Moons
  • The BFG
  • The Name Jar
  • The Salamander Room
  • Oh, un oiseau sur ta tête!
  • Who Is the Forest For?
  • You Call That Brave?
  • You’ve Got Dragons

Intermediate
  • Crickwing
  • Frog Girl
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Le livre des petits pourquoi
  • Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
  • One Grain of Rice
  • Orca Chief
  • Out of My Mind
  • Sparrow Girl
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)
  • Une Figue de Rêve
  • Wonder

 Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Climate Change
  • Legend of the Sugar Girl
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • Lowered Riverbed Reveals “Secrets”
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • Thank You, M’am
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Three Questions
  • Vaccine Effectiveness
  • Way Home

teacher hints

Making inferences needs to be explicitly taught. Shared reading is an effective approach.

Suggested teacher questions:

"What does the author actually say?"

"What does the author lead you to believe?"

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