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Write About Reading

SESSION 1  |  Grades K-12 / ELL All Levels | HANDOUT

Make inferences in 5 steps

Use both voices to make an inference

Reveal the inference process within an anchor chart

Connect reader voices with Roz Linder’s Silhouette Head.

Anchor Chart pieces for basic inference—and additional thinking stems for a lack of background knowledge.
Readers Make Inferences

Require readers to show their thinking.

Apply the 5-step inference process regardless of text type

Start with visual text.

Make inferences with all text types.

Print Text

Video Text

Make inferences—even when background knowledge is lacking.