One of the most important skills a reader can have is the ability to infer. This lesson is completely written out for you and can be used early on in a unit of study on inferencing. In this lesson students will figure out how to unpack a text/the words on a page in order to figure out what the characters in their book are really doing, saying and thinking. They do this by citing the text and then talking with the members of their book club about the evidence they found to back up their thinking.
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I found this lesson a little too specific to a particular book for my liking. The students really needed to have read the book you selected in order to understand the lesson. That's why I rated it low in practicality. I was looking for a more general mini-lesson for the price.
January 5, 2010
I'm sorry you found this lesson too specific for your liking. In the product preview one can see that the text used is Jacqueline Woodson's The Other Side. This picture book is one that can be borrowed from a library and read aloud to a class in a short period of time to make the lesson effective.
January 5, 2010
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I'm a fourth grade teacher in Rhode Island. Before moving to Rhode Island, I taught fifth grade for three years in the NYC Public School System. (I also taught religious school classes to 3rd and 4th grade students.) LAST YEAR, I... -started a blog called Two Writing Teachers where we blog about the teaching of writing. -obtained a second master's degree in Literacy from Teachers College (Columbia University). -published a book with my students, which you can learn more about by going to www.theextendeddaygirls.com.
