Inferencing! The big buzz word, skill, focus,... new ideas

Inferencing...  a HUGE part of our ELA curriculum.  So... jumping into our two week review before STAAR Reading, my teaching partner and I have come up with a few good ideas...actually...stolen ideas from great resources!  Taking a page from Harry Wong's book... STEAL, STEAL, STEAL!  

So, I went to Pinterest and found some great Inferencing Anchor Charts and squished a few together to come up with the following:

Will work on reviewing what it means in general one day, and students will begin their Making Connections folder with this anchor chart on the front:

Stole the Making Connections Unit idea from our 6th grade ELA team (thanks Sara!) and the folder idea from our 7th grade history teacher (thanks Sharon!)!  : )

More will be added to the interior of the folder as we move through the next two weeks: examples, foldables glued in, venn diagrams, charting of text, etc.  More pics to come as I finish my teacher model.

Day 2 we will use the book No, David by David Shannon to do an introduction review to inferencing with pictures as we chart the following for each page as a class:
 1.  What I see/read (Text Evidence)  +  2. What I Know (BK)  =  Logical Inference

My teaching partner, Cassie, got the book idea from a kinder teacher website!
http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/2012/01/inferencing-with-no-david-and-silent-e.html

The chart idea I got from Pinterest and just tweaked it a bit.

That's it for now!  More to come and will certainly share....  already have another idea for next week that I'm stealing from another 6th grade teacher, Chad, at our sister middle school!  Thanks Chad! Sharing IS Caring!  : )

Maas Out!