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Making Inferences in a K-2 Classroom | How to Teach Inferences to Kids

Are you teaching students to make inferences in first grade, second grade, or kindergarten? In this video, Susan Jones shares 3 easy and fun activities for inferring.

Classroom Strategy: List-Group-Label

List-group-label is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy that helps develop categorization skills, build background knowledge, activate critical thinking, and grow vocabulary. Watch list-group-label in action.

Sentence Starters: Making Text-to-Self Connections

Students build essential skills in reading comprehension by using sentence starters to help them make text-to-self connections to books they are reading.

Weather Mind Maps: Building Background Knowledge and Vocabulary (Virtual Tour)

Mind maps are a unique way for students to build their knowledge of a topic and display new and interesting vocabulary.

Using Concept Sort in the Classroom.

A concept sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used to familiarize students with the vocabulary of a new topic or book.

Writing about the natural world

Joseph discusses the connection he feels with the Adirondack Mountains where he grew up and his writing about the natural world.

Every subject under the sun

Graphic novels and picture books for all ages

Visual books are often quite sophisticated. They can build background knowledge and be a gateway to more rigorous reading.

Truck or Trunk? Friend or Fiend?

Mis-reading a sentence in a Dick & Jane book in first grade gave Blume some ideas for word play in her books.

Poetry across the curriculum

Dr. Sylvia Vardell makes some cross-curricular connections with poetry and other subject areas.

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