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Making Inferences: Reading Comprehension for Kids

In this one-time class, students will be taught what an inference is, why it is important and then begin to make their own inferences through viewing funny pictures, comics and then texts.

Amanda Kerton

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5.0

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(23)

What's included

1 live meeting

40 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

US Grade 1 - 4

In this one-time class, students will first learn what an inference is. An inference is one of the five areas in reading comprehension. Inferences take clues from a book and the reader's background knowledge, and combine them together to come to a conclusion about something going on in the book. It is reading between the lines at what the author has left unspoken. 

Students will engage in a scaffolding process to make inferences. Using a Google Slides presentation, students will first examine wordless pictures and discuss what they see, what the know and what they think is going on in the picture. We will then move to comic strips which combine words and pictures. We will look at the comic strips on the Slides to make inferences. Finally, students will engage with picture-less texts to make inferences about the words they see.

Other Details

External Resources

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:

Google slides

Amanda Kerton

Joined June, 2022

5.0

23reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

Hi! My name is Ms. Amanda and I was born to teach. I have two younger sisters and when I was little, I would play teacher with them all the time. As a child, I even taught my sister Sam how to read. I love reading and Harry Potter is my all-time favourite series (yes that is how you spell favourite in Canada). 

Now that I am all grown up, I have had the pleasure to teach everything from Pre Kindergarten to grade 6, Adult Basic Education and college level courses. I was even the Principal and Student Support Teacher of a small school for a few years! I have a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, a BEd, a Masters of Science in Education with a specialist in reading and literacy and am currently a Doctoral Candidate. 

I believe that all students can learn when the teacher recognizes student choice and multiple intelligences, and when strong relationships are fostered through listening and sharing. This will develop a lifelong love of learning. 

I can't wait to virtually meet my students from across the continent! 

Talk to you soon,
Ms. Amanda