What's the difference between a clown and a cashier? Use context clues to infer what each character does for a living in five different reading passages. Kids mark their choices on the space provided.

Concepts

narrators, context clues, inferences, making inferences, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Include in your lesson about finding context clues, or first-person narrators
• Encourage kids to write their own stories or skits from a first-person perspective, leaving out key details to provide opportunities for making inferences
• A good addition to a unit about community helpers

Pros

• Provides an answer key for simple assessment

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.3.1 RL.4.1 RL.5.1