Lesson 8: Making Inferences
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
After reading and discussing a model, students will be able to make inferences in order to improve reading comprehension.
Checklist for Making Inferences:
To make inferences and use evidence to support understanding, do the following:
- Note details in which the author gives clues but doesn’t say clearly what’s going on.
- Apply prior knowledge to the detail.
- Combine clues from the text with prior knowledge to make an inference.
- Use text evidence to support your inference and confirm that it’s relevant.
RL/I.8.10; SL.8.1.A, SL.8.1.C, SL.8.2; L.8.6
DOK 2 & 3
Text Chunking
Guiding Questions
Sentence Starters & Response Frames
Small Group Support
Graphic Organizers
Visual Glossary
Modeling
Think-a-Louds
Quiz questions, Open-Ended Response Questions, Discussion and Notes
StudySync Lesson on Making Inferences