Lesson 9: Making Inferences with Poetry
Mrs. Little’s lesson is an example of explicit instruction of English SOL 8.5b the student will read and analyze a variety of narrative and poetic forms and describe inferred main ideas or themes using evidence from the text as support.

The lesson also includes opportunities for students to:
8.6a draw on background knowledge and knowledge of text structure to understand selections
   
8.6c analyze the author’s use of text structure and word choice
   
8.6h draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information and
   
8.6i make inferences based on explicit and implied information.
   

Mrs. Little builds her students’ confidence by moving gradually from the word level, to cartoons and riddles arriving finally at a challenging and poetic text. She incorporates a graphic organizer and multiple reading and rereading of the text to help her students become confident and strategic with making inferences.

Mrs. Little seizes a teachable moment to introduce 8.5a explain the use of symbols… after a student connects the roads in the text to choices in life.
 
 
     
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
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