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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inferential Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teaching students to "read influentially" helps them learn how to read more strategically. This technique is derived from the teaching model that learners develop knowledge via the process of interpreting new information in light of past...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: How and Why Characters Change

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson plan examines and makes inferences into the change and development in characters. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Dream Tube Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use this comprehensive instructional activity as part of a comprehensive literacy, STEM, or social studies unit in which children will be using informational texts. In the "Dream Tube" animated story from the PBS Kids series Molly of...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Personal or Social Tragedy? Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will challenge students to weigh the textual evidence for and against the claim that Ethan's woes lay in staying in Starkfield-and not in the details of his personal relationships. In the process, students will close read...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" Writing Women

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A close reading of "The Yellow Wall-paper" employing the analysis of such literary concepts as setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization. Students will write an essay discussing what the story suggests about middle-class...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's as I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
William Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community. Students will explore the use of multiple voices in...