Inferences Concrete & Engaging Lesson & Activities- Comprehension Crew
$7.75
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to help your students effectively understand and apply the reading skill of making inferences? You’ve found it!! A lesson plan to use with any book and activities are included!
This resource is the only inference activity you need! It has everything you need to introduce and teach inferencing to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with any text and with all future lessons.
Izzy The Inferencer will help you teach inferencing to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. He shows readers how to use the clues in the text with the clues from their own experiences to make conclusions. Izzy also provides them with strategies and confidence for inferencing throughout a text to ensure their understanding.
This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice making inferences.
*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program
The resource includes the following:
Character Posters & Visual Aids
Character Profile- includes character profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
Concrete Inference Activity
Introduction & Modeling Lesson- can be applied to any book
Teacher Implementation Tips
Graphic Organizers- 18 differentiated options for any text
Flip Books- 2 options that can be used with any text
Interactive Notebook Pages
Task Cards with Photographs- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Task Cards with Short Text- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Practice Passages- differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included
lower readability- Max’s Party
higher readability- The Zoo
Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books
Now updated to include the graphic organizers, worksheets, and posters in Google Slides for your students to type on!
What is the Comprehension Crew?
Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, song, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.
Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?
There are characters representing each of the following reading skills:
inferencing
questioning
predicting
summarizing
clarifying
connecting- TRY FOR FREE!
synthesizing
evaluating
visualizing
theme
determining importance
main idea
text features
text structure
vocabulary
Reviews
2nd Grade Teacher Dion said: “Inference is a very difficult concept for young learners. Your resource made it exciting and fun. Incorporated a trench coat, hat and magnifying glasses and they were so excited! Thank you for creating this resource. The students loved it and found it helpful.”
1st Grade Teacher Ashley said: “This resource is full of different graphic organizers for use. I appreciate the different levels of graphic organizers and the task cards are fabulous practice.”
If you have any questions about this resource or how to best use it in your classroom, I am happy to help! Please email me at becky@lessonsbythelakeblog.com or Instagram message me at Lessons_by_the_lake. Thank you!
