Teacher tip: Use animated videos to help your child learn to make inferences
To make an inference, a student must make a logical connection between two or more ideas in a text. She needs to "read between the lines." And research shows if a student can make inferences with pictures, comics or videos, she can make them with words.
Possessive Nouns - FREE
Possessive NounsI made this freebie unit to celebrate completely redoing my #1 best selling unit on possessive nouns. You can see the revised unit HERE.Here is what is included in this unit:One flap book- sort possessive and plural wordsOne cut and paste sorting possessive and plural words I also just updated my proper noun unit.
Balanced Literacy » Questioning
Good readers generate questions B4, during, & after reading to lead them deeper into a text. This is different than answering the teacher’s ??? about a text – good readers are always wondering & questioning in order 2B active thinkers. Proficient readers: * use ??? to focus their attention on particular aspects of a text ** ask ??? for different purposes, including to clarify meaning, make predictions, determine an author’s style, or locate a specific answer in text