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Reading Strategies: Inferencing

High School

Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author’s message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. The student is expected to:

(A) reflect on understanding to monitor comprehension (e. g., asking questions, summarizing and synthesizing, making connections, creating sensory images); and

(B) make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding.

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Vertical Alignment

Grades K-12 with ESOL

Figure 19 grade 7 and English II annotation exercise using Prism

Unwrapping activity

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CLOSE Reading Strategy

Distribute placemats to each student and display individual anchor charts for each of the five CLOSE Reading Strategies.

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Foundation for Inferencing

Movie introduces inference by teaching Costa's three levels of questioning. Pause when needed. Activity employs Gradual Release of Responsibility.

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SOAPSTone

Padlet page of SOAPSTone documents from beginner to advanced.

Inferencing Games

Extend three levels of questioning activity with a class baseball game.

Use commercials to teach inferencing.

Introduce inference skills with mini lessons and warm ups.

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The Reading Strategies Book

Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers

By Jennifer Serravallo

In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals—everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time.

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