Infer and Highlight for older students - Special Education and Speech Therapy
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Description
Explicitly teach inferencing skills to your middle, junior high, and high school speech therapy and special education students with 28 unique and age appropriate paragraphs!
STUDENTS WILL…
•highlight evidence
•make inferences
•answer inference questions
•infer the meaning of unknown vocabulary words and idioms
Each paragraph includes age appropriate themes, grammar, and vocabulary for students in 6th through 12th grade.
3 INFERENCING ACTIVITIES...
- TASK #1: (8 paragraphs) Read a paragraph and highlight evidence for given statements. Make predictions based on information in the paragraph.
- TASK #2: (10 paragraphs) Read a paragraph and answer questions. Highlight information used to make inferences. Make predictions and inferences about embedded vocabulary and idioms.
- TASK #3: (10 paragraphs) Read a paragraph. Independently make inferences and highlight evidence. Make predictions and inferences about embedded vocabulary and idioms.
(see the preview for examples of each task)
AVAILALE FORMATS...
- Printable PDF
- Editable Google Doc (for easy highlighting)
- TpT Easel (text boxes and highlight tool included)
I LOVE THIS EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY OF HIGHLIGHTING! DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE RESOURCES LIKE THIS ONE?
Yes!
Read and Highlight #1 focuses on 10 different careers and industries using the same highlighting strategy!
Read and Highlight #2 (slightly more difficult than #1) focuses on 10 different careers and industries using the same highlighting strategy! Great for students working on comprehension AND career exploration!
Read & Color provides more highlighting opportunities on longer stories and includes comprehension, vocabulary, and critical reasoning activities
Infer & Highlight challenges your students to highlight clues in fictional stories that can be used to infer information.
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