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The Miracle of the First Poinsettia
Connecting to literature and learning how to infer are two great reading strategies everyone needs to know. Here, the class will read along with the story The Miracle of the First Poinsettia, review folktales as a genre, and make...
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Making Inferences - An Introduction
Help your learners identify the inferences they make every day with this SMART board lesson. With a comic strip in the first presentation slide, they make inferences about the situation. A discussion addresses what type of prior...
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Inferences
Inferences are the focus of this short, but effective resource. Students see that when all of the facts are missing in a piece of writing, one has to make an inference - a guess based on what is known. Students practice by considering...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Eighth graders read the Diary of Anne Frank. In this novel reading activity, 8th graders read and analyze the story. Students do online activities and create a newspaper giving a summary of three major events in the story. Students...
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Egg In a Bottle
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students observe a demonstration where paper is ignited and placed in a bottle with a hard-boiled egg at the opening. Students predict what will occur, they make observations and they make...
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Tomas and the Library Lady
Students practice read aloud comprehension strategies. In this literacy comprehension lesson, students listen to Tomas and the Library Lady, stopping to discuss with a partner aspects of the story suggested by the teacher. Students make...
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Making Inferences
Students discover how making inferences helps people solve problems. In this inference lesson plan, students read a story aloud and discuss problems as they occur in the story. Students work in small groups and use events in the text to...
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Identifying Setting and Completing a Story Map
Second graders complete a story map for Frog and Toad Are Friends. For this making inferences lesson students find specific details from the book to complete their story map. They map one chapter at a time.
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Making Inferences about Problem and Solution
Students use unfamiliar objects to make inferences. In this making inferences lesson, students make guesses about what an item does. Students brainstorm together and make lists of ideas and write them on index cards. The teacher gives...
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Town Hall: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Town Hall and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including synthesizing, main idea/details, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.
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Big Bushy Mustache: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Big Bushy Mustache and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including note taking, making inferences, fiction and non fiction, drawing...
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A Chair For My Mother: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book A Chair For My Mother and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including making inferences, cause and effect, and plot.
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Henry and Mudge: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Henry and Mudge and complete comprehension activities. Students complete activities such as inferences, drawing conclusions, character traits, and main idea and...
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Dogs: Comprehension Strategies
In this comprehension strategies instructional activity, students read the story Dogs and then complete comprehension strategies for the story. Students complete activities on cause and effect, main idea and details, inferences, details,...
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A Trip to the Fire Station: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book A Trip to the Fire Station and complete comprehension activities. Students complete activities such as drawing conclusions, making inferences, synthesizing, important...
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Simple Machines
Students investigate simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students construct two simple machines and describe what they do. Students show that simple changes help machines do work with less effort. Students use a paper clip...
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African American Experiences: Window to the Past
Students examine African life during slavery on the Internet. In this slavery lesson, students use the Internet to research slavery and create a scrapbook. Students review pictures of slavery and label them as primary or secondary sources.
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Reading: The Mayans 1
In this reading comprehension with glossary worksheet, students read a passage about the Mayan civilization and the accompanying glossary and illustrations, and then identify true statements from the reading and by inference. Students...
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The Scientific Method
In this scientific method worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given 21 clues about the steps of the scientific method. Topics include observations, hypotheses, variables, inferences, results and conclusions.
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Need: What do they need?
In this making inferences worksheet, learners make inferences and write sentences about what people need based on their picture. Students complete 4 sentences.
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Qualitative and Quantitative Observations
In this qualitative and quantitative observation worksheet, students determine if 10 given observations are quantitative or qualitative. They write a qualitative and quantitative statement and they write an observation and inference...
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Pop Rock Chemistry
In this pop rock chemistry worksheet, young scholars suck on pop rocks, they mix open pop rocks with water and they observe them on a paper towel with water. Students write down as many observations as they can and they write down as...
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Present for Father
In this Father's Day learning exercise, students read a passage about Father's Day and then answer 5 true or false questions involving inferences. Then the students write an opinion paragraph explaining what the girl should buy her...
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House on Fire
In this reading comprehension instructional activity about firefighting, students read a passage about firefighting, then answer 5 true or false questions using inferences based on the reading passage. Then students write an opinion...