Come Read With Me

École Elsie Mironuck School

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

March 2008

Tonight’s Focus:

‣ Comprehension Strategy: Drawing Inferences*

‣ How To Read A Textbook

*Making Connections is taken directly from the “7 Keys of Comprehension” by Susan Zimmermann and Chrys Hutchins.

Inferences

• Expand

• Draw conclusions

• Go beyond

• Enrich

• Reading between the lines

• Guess

• Suppose

• Assumption

Inference?

Questioning or Inferring?

A Marketplace

Beyond - A Marketplace

A Park

Beyond - A Park

A Stadium

Beyond - A Stadium

Still not convinced?

Reveal thinking