Today we did our first inference activity. I showed you a picture of the comic and asked you, "Why is the turkey visiting the psychiatrist?" We practiced using the phrase, "It says_____, I say ______, and so _______." I was very impressed with how well you all did!
When we were finished I had you complete your anticipation guide for The Outsiders. We tallied up the amounts of "yes" and "no" for each category. To wrap up this activity I asked you to complete the sentence below.
I predict this book will be about
__(Inference)__ because__(Textual evidence/Prior knowledge)__.
We briefly talked about how making predictions is a type of inference. I asked you to support your prediction with evidence from either the anticipation guide or the article, or both!
To round out the hour I either gave you independent reading time to begin the story or read aloud to you.
