I’m working on comprehension! My strategy is Infer and Support
Secret to Success
There may be a bit of guessing involved when inferring. Readers will need to use everything they already know and clues from the text, illustrations, and captions to figure out or guess what is happening.
Discovering and identifying the clues to determine what the reader thinks the author’s purpose is for writing the selection helps the reader infer the meaning and decide how to approach the text.
Authors usually don’t tell readers why they wrote their selections; the readers have to figure that out and give evidence from the text to support their thinking.
What you can ask or model
Each time your child picks up any reading material, ask him or her to predict what the author’s purpose is: Persuade, Inform, or Entertain. Ask your child to support this with specific examples from the text.
Things to say:
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)
Secret to Success
There may be a bit of guessing involved when inferring. Readers will need to use everything they already know and clues from the text, illustrations, and captions to figure out or guess what is happening.
Discovering and identifying the clues to determine what the reader thinks the author’s purpose is for writing the selection helps the reader infer the meaning and decide how to approach the text.
Authors usually don’t tell readers why they wrote their selections; the readers have to figure that out and give evidence from the text to support their thinking.
What you can ask or model
Each time your child picks up any reading material, ask him or her to predict what the author’s purpose is: Persuade, Inform, or Entertain. Ask your child to support this with specific examples from the text.
Things to say:
- “Do I know anything about this author?”
- “Is this selection going to teach me something, make me laugh, or try to get me to do something?”
- “What clues can I find in the text that supports what I think?”
- “How might you approach reading this text, knowing the author’s purpose?”
- “After reading the selection, do you still agree with your inference about why the author wrote this text? If not, what do you think is the author’s purpose now? What is your evidence?”
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)