Students read A Chair for My Mother and learn to make inferences about characters by combining text evidence with background knowledge. They discover that an inference can be written as a simple if/then rule, the...
Students become character detectives, using evidence from the text and their own background knowledge to figure out what kind of person a character is. They learn that making inferences about characters is like following a...
Students read The Water Princess and make inferences about what Gie Gie might be thinking and feeling — even when the author doesn't say it directly. They learn to turn those inferences into if–then statements...
Today you will read A Chair for My Mother and look for clues about why Rosa and her family make the choices they do. Then you will use Scratch to show your thinking with if–then...
Today you will be a character detective! You will read parts of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp and The Farmer and the Stork. You will look for clues about what characters are really like, then...
Today you will be an inference investigator! You will explore the story of The Water Princess. You will look for text evidence to make inferences about Gie Gie's internal struggles and choices, then use Scratch...
