Today students started learning about how to make inferences. Inferences can be a tricky topic for our emerging readers as they are required to look for clues in a text, consider their own schema or experiences about that clue and THEN make an inference.
Making inferences based on previous experiences is an important skill for our first grade readers. It will also become increasingly useful as they read more sophisticated texts.
We had a really fun introductory lesson that was inspired by the work of other first grade teachers. Students closed their eyes and chose an item from my personal bag. They looked at these items like clues, considered their previous experiences with these items and ten made inferences about what those items meant about teacher Gaja!
Check out our group work and their independent work with this topic!
Making inferences based on previous experiences is an important skill for our first grade readers. It will also become increasingly useful as they read more sophisticated texts.
We had a really fun introductory lesson that was inspired by the work of other first grade teachers. Students closed their eyes and chose an item from my personal bag. They looked at these items like clues, considered their previous experiences with these items and ten made inferences about what those items meant about teacher Gaja!
Check out our group work and their independent work with this topic!