Making Inferences Lesson Plan: Key Ideas and Details
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Making Inferences, and supports the standard of referring to details and examples in a text drawing inferences from the text. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Display this image:
Ask students:
- How might this person be feeling?
- What details in the picture support your inference?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Read the description on the Making Inferences topic page.
- Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Assign the Making Inferences Challenge and Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about making inferences while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.
- Make-a-Movie:Produce an interview with a movie star that uses details to imply they are snobby.
- Make-a-Map: Create a concept map identifying observations that might lead you to infer that someone is worried.
- Creative Coding: Code a museum exhibit with artifacts representing your favorite place. Challenge a classmate to use the artifacts to infer the place.
More to Explore
Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case: Unravel the clues to make inferences about mysterious artifacts.
Teacher Support Resources:
- Pause Point Overview: Video tutorial showing how Pause Points actively engage students to stop, think, and express ideas.
- Learning Activities Modifications: Strategies to meet ELL and other instructional and student needs.
- Learning Activities Support: Resources for best practices using BrainPOP.
