Making Inferences: No, David!

     For the past few weeks, we have been working on the reading skills of making inferences and drawing conclusions.   By using clues from a text combined with information we already know (schema), we are able to comprehend beyond what is directly written.  We do this all the time when we read a book, but don't always realize we do.   To further reinforce this idea, we read a book with which most of the students are very familiar:

     Then we broke it down page by page and talked about all the inferences we could make from the words and picture clues:

This was a fun activity.  Be sure to ask your children about some of the other inference games and lessons we've done!