Making Inferences

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

4

Overview

This classroom resource provides a teaching video on making interferences. The video teaches the students to use their own life experiences with the information the author gives them to make an inference. This classroom resource includes a game to help with understanding.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.15

Analyze in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

UP:ELA21.4.15

Vocabulary

  • Analyze
  • Character
  • Setting
  • Event
  • Story
  • Drama
  • Specific details

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Characters are any person, animal, or figure that affect the events of the story.
  • Setting is when and where a story takes place.
  • Events are situations that are described in the story.
  • A drama is a story with dialogue that can be read by different people.
  • Details in the text provide information about the characters, setting, and events.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use specific details from the text to explain attributes of the characters, setting, or event in a story or drama.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can explain details about characters, settings, and events in a story or drama by using evidence from the text.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

Room Recess

License Type

Public Domain
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