Strategy : Inferential

Explanation/Purpose : When the student reads a text, they will make subjective judgements based on prior knowledge. Questioning the author helps get the authors perspective. The student uses context clues in the text to predict upcoming information or to guess the meaning of new items.

How it looks in the classroom : `Text says,I say´. Have children put question marks or post–its against something they don’t understand? Students use context clues to make logical inferences at new words or phrases.

When? : Before & during

Weblink for further reading and examples :

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5005852305