Making inferences about text have never been a strong suit on my part. I often have worried that this would be something that I struggle with teaching in my classroom. After reading this chapter, I was able to identify a few of the skilled reader tasks that I struggle with (such as undersanding intonation of characters' words, understanding the author's view of the world, and recognizing the author's biases) that I can start working on more in order to improve my own inference skills. I absolultely loved the charting activity on page 64 and plan on using it at some point this semester with the class I'm working with. Often I think if they just paused to think these simple statements out loud and process them, making inferences and comprehending the text would come a lot easier to them.
I enjoyed getting some tools for my own toolbox so that this isn't something I avoid and dread teaching. After all, my attitude is going to effect the attitudes my students take on reading!
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