Today we introduced our third Reading
Strategy: Inferring. To concretely
demonstrate this strategy, the girls were told a very believable, but fictional
story. As the story goes, I took garbage from my mysterious, new neighbors so I could learn
something about them. After presenting
the girls with each item, they were able to make inferences about the neighbors. For example, the girls inferred the neighbors
had a baby after seeing an empty jar of baby food. The girls were amazing as
they supported their inferential thinking with evidence from the garbage. In
the end, they were relieved to learn I had made up the whole story.
