The importance of background knowledge is especially salient in the age of Common Core. This article offers practical classroom strategies to build background knowledge such as using contrasts and comparisons and encouraging...

First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.

In this game, students are asked to infer what is being described. They click on "Press to Show a Clue" revealing a line of the riddle until they have an idea of what is being described; next, they type their guess into the "Make a...