In this lesson, students use text evidence and schema to create an inference. Students read informational text and practice inferring with varying levels of support.

Students will critically think and communicate; they will summarize a text to understand and make connections to other texts, themselves, and the world.

Students will read a text, identify its organizational pattern, highlight signal words, create a visual representation/graphic organizer, and present to the class.

Students will use a graphic organizer to draft the introduction paragraph of their expository essays.

Students used organizational patterns (compare and contrast, argumentative, cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological) to create anchor charts. Students then worked in groups to analyze text and plan a composition, using the anchor charts to complete the tasks. Ultimately, students created a plan from a self-generated topic to demonstrate an understanding of the use of organizational patterns. 

Students will use Social Studies Weekly newspaper to make inferences about historical events using schema and text evidence.

Students will determine the important parts of a story and recognize and compose an individual summary by using color-coordinated sticky notes and the Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then (SWBST) strategy. Students will practice correctly identifying the parts of the SWBST strategy during a read-aloud. Students will work in groups and read a short story together, identify key components, and compose a written summary. Students will demonstrate their ability to recognize a good summary by writing two components of summarization on an exit ticket.

Students pretend to be detectives while being presented with various pictorial and textual clues that lead them to make an overall inference about what happened on Tuesday.

Engaging in a crime scene investigation, students will collaboratively examine the evidence, make inferences about their observations, and write a detailed description of the crime. Students will then read an informational text about investigating a crime scene and answer inference questions.

Students will be able to determine the meaning of words using Greek, Latin, or other linguistic roots and affixes.

Students will work independently and collaboratively to recognize the theme within a variety of texts. Students will create theme topics and theme statements from texts read.

Students will practice using a protocol to create a summary of an expository text.

Students will work with partners, as well as independently, to create and evaluate summaries of expository text.

In this lesson, students will expand their critical thinking skills by making inferences found in a short film and listening to a literary fictional text on tablets. Working collaboratively in groups, students will create anchor charts to demonstrate their understanding of making inferences and present their detailed anchor charts to their classmates. 

Students will work collaboratively in groups as they practice their inferring skills using children’s literature books.

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Students will identify supporting details and the main idea in a passage.

In learning stations, students use textual evidence and personal schema to generate inferences, make generalizations, and draw conclusions to support understanding about expository text.

Students will read expository text, categorize findings, and reformulate the text into an obituary.

Using a digital forum, seventh-grade students will collaboratively generate authentic inferences about character motivation. Students will utilize textual evidence and draw from personal schema in order to make logical connections across multiple genres.