Who can remember what making an inference is?
2. Record students’ answers on the chart paper or board and clarify the meaning of the term inference as necessary. Making inferences means reading between the lines. We use information in the book to fill in the missing blanks. 3. Explain why making inferences is useful to readers. Good readers make inferences when they read. They think about what is written in the book and what they know from their own lives to make inferences. They use the clues from the book to draw conclusions about why characters do what they do. You do this in your own life. You make inferences about the people around you based on their actions. Making inferences helps us understand a book better. 4. Show the cover of the book. Today we will be reading _________________________ by __________________. We will be making inferences about the main character. 5. Direct students to the large Character Web you drew on the board or chart paper. In the middle of the web, we will write the main character’s name. In the ci
