Week 17

Comprehension- Inferring

This week my leadership team and I had the opportunity to go on Walk Throughs around the campus.  It was great to see that all of our K-2 classes have their Daily 5 rotations running smoothly and our 3rd-6th grade classes have Café going.  One of our 5th grade teachers was modeling an inference lesson.  She had the students bring their HM anthology with them to the carpet.  They were working on inferring a character's feeling.   She had a chart that had the below information on it...
Inferences
*How does a character feel?
*How do we know it?

________felt ___________because_________________
(name)           (emotion)                   (reason/clues)

The teacher read aloud the first two pages of Dear Mr. Henshaw to her class.  They discussed how the character was felling and why.  The teacher did a great job probing the students deeper with their thinking by asking them to justify their thinking from the text.  These types of lesson will help us transition our students to thinking critically with evidence to support their thinking!