![]() ![]() I have also created this mini-anchor chart for my students to glue in their notebook. ![]() Don’t forget that young readers are still new to the idea that “reading is thinking.” As their teachers, we have to help them understand how readers think about the text.Īs I share what it means to infer, I make an anchor chart with my students to display in the room. ![]() I tell them this means reading closely to notice things the author may not specifically tell them. To first begin this new skill, I tell my students they will be reading like detectives. This makes this text the ultimate book for teaching inferencing to young readers, especially if you don’t show them the pictures first! Before Reading: Introduce Inferencing With each new place they go, the ants give a description from their perspective. The ants are then thrown into a dangerous boiling brown lake (coffee) and they visit several other scary places in the kitchen before returning safely home. The ants think the sugar bowl is the ultimate paradise for an ant, until morning comes and the human awakes and heads to the kitchen to make his morning cup of coffee. ![]() Two Bad Ants is told from the point of view of two ants who stay behind in the sugar bowl instead of taking sugar back to their queen. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |