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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Inferring

In English Language Arts and Reading Reading Comprehension Skills Metacognitive Skills

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An editable 13-slide PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of inferencing.

Use this teaching presentation to explicitly introduce your students to the reading comprehension strategy of inferencing.

This PowerPoint includes the following content:

a definition of the strategy
an explanation of how and when to use the strategy
examples of metacognitive questions to ask when applying the strategy
a guided, whole-class activity (based on a literary text)
an activity for the students to complete independently.

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Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.

8 lessons 2 - 6

Common Core

Common Core Curriculum alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
In Grade 4 English Language Arts Standards Reading: Literature Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
In Grade 5 English Language Arts Standards Reading: Literature Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
In Grade 6 English Language Arts Standards Reading: Literature Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
In Anchor Standards College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

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