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Week 4

Determine which details are relevant.

Define relevant details as those that are helpful.

Connect relevance to the question.

Lesson explanation for K-2

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Recognize that relevant details are related to the question.

Lesson explanation
grades 3-12

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lesson explanation

Identify “relevant” textual details per reading standard.

Annotate based on the reading purpose.

Activate more than text-to-self connections.

Put readers in the position of lacking memories or personal connections.

Activate background knowledge
when inferring.

Prompt readers when
their inferences are off track.

Identify texts/excerpts on unfamiliar topics.

Week 4, Day 17—Infer with patterns & relationships

4-Step Mini-Lesson

Infer unusual jobs
people do.

Make inferences from
everyday artifacts.

Infer feelings from
complex illustrations.

Infer world events
from photos.

Adjust thinking for schema as continuing to read for details.

Grades 4-6 Mini-Lesson Resources

Grades 7-12 Mini-Lesson Resources

Figure out tricky words with context clues

Readers question & predict word meanings.

Grades K-1
Mini-Lesson Resources

Grades 2-3
Mini-Lesson Resources

Grades 4-6
Mini-Lesson Resources

Grades 7-12
Mini-Lesson Resources

Introduce types of clues authors provide.

Help students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Pre-teach only the most critical vocabulary.

Read for word meanings.

Practice reading for context with WordMarks.

Teach students to look for clues before, after, and inside the word.

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Increase students’ awareness of context clues by teaching them to include definition details within their own writing using these lesson resources.