PDF-[DOWNLOAD] - 100 Task Cards: Making Inferences: Reproducible Mini-Passages With Key Questions

Add this set of 100 text cards to your classroom routine and watch students comprehension abilities skyrocket Each reproducible card contains a highinterest minipassage and five key questions to hone mustknow inference skillsin just 10 minutes a day Cards provide guided support to help students learn to effectively read between the lines in both fiction and nonfiction texts A great way to boost standardized test taking scores. B5.3 1 Comprehension B5.3 MAKING INFERENCES ( BEGINNING LEVEL ) Drawing Inferences You have been drawing inferences all your life. You began to make many kinds of inferences when you were a baby. Yo Building Blocks of the . Reading Process. Why is reading comprehension important? . NCLB – reading scores are critical to making AYP and everything that goes along with it. Content-Area reading comprehension continues to suffer – impacting students ability to independently process complex ideas. H325A120003. Overview of the Essential Components of Reading Instruction K–5. Part 3.6: Comprehension. A special thanks to the Meadows Center for Preventing Education Risk at the University of Texas at Austin for permission to use and adapt material from a module created by the Higher Education Collaborative: . Grades 3 – 5. © 2013 Texas Education Agency / The University of Texas System. “ Inferring is the bedrock of comprehension, not only in reading. We infer in many realms. Our life clicks along more smoothly if we can read the world as well as text. Inferring is about reading faces, reading body language, reading expressions, and reading tone as well as reading text.”. Mrs. . Davidovicz’s. . 2011 – 2012 Class. GPS: . GPS: ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student. f. Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events and supports them with evidence from the text. . . ACT™ Prep. Ms. Rasp and Ms. . Stanolis. Reading Passages. Every ACT™ reading test has 40 questions that must be answered in 35 minutes. There will be one passage from each of the following categories in this order:. Electronic . texts introduce new supports as well as new challenges that can have a great impact on an individual's ability to comprehend what he or she reads. . Proficiency . in the new literacies of the Internet will become essential to our students' literacy . E. vidence…. 1/15/2015. Making Inferences. We make inferences all the time whether we realize it or not. Good readers make inferences while reading when we predict what will happen next or ask ourselves why character is behaving a certain way.. Repeated practice builds mastery, and this book provides exactly the practice students need to master the reading skills of making inferences and drawing conclusions. 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