Inferencing mentor texts

This making inference activity and lesson plan will help all of your readers succeed at making inferences and inferring as they independently read in your upper elementary and middle school classrooms. Making inference mentor text included.

In this post, I am sharing how to teach inferencing with a Mystery Box! It is an excellent way to encourage kids to think whil having fun!

Teach students to practice inferring with this mentor text lesson using the mentor text The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg.

Since it is summertime and so many of us are already in planning mode for next year, I wanted to utilize my Mentor Text series post this month to share books to help you teach your students about THEME! If you like any of the books you see in this blog post, you can click […]

Teach students to practice inferring with this mentor text lesson using the mentor text The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg.

Calling 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade teachers! These Three Hens and a Peacock activities created by Clutter-Free Classroom as part of their Starts With a Story collection are a great companion to Lester Laminack’s picture book. This mentor text is perfect for teaching elementary students predicting, cause and effect, point of view and inferencing. Pair the printable worksheets and teaching tips with a quick anchor chart idea to make the most of your reading lesson. Check out this post to learn…

Inferring from the text – anchor chart

While all of our students don’t need ALL of these strategies, I’ve organized a lot of the things mentioned in this series of blog posts into six big categories. I hope that they’ll help you wrap your mind around SIMPLE things that you can do to help your students with some of their biggest learning obstacles in math. Place Holders & Trackers For many of our students, keeping track of their place is HARD. However, I love to have a few tools handy to help them keep track of where they are and…

I always look forward to teaching figurative language in my classroom, and idioms in particular. Students get such a kick (note the idiom here) talking about and learning new idioms and we really enjoy doing some fun activities to help kids build a stronger language base. In this post by The Teacher Next Door, you'll read about seven different activities that reinforce idioms and have worked well in the classroom:

Inference is an important skill for students to learn in order to really dig deep into a text. People use inference every day to make sense of the things people say and do. Students use inference all the time, but they need some guidance in learning how to use the strategy with a text.