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Exploring Inference through Seasonal Activities and Literature: A Classroom Guide

This lesson plan focuses on enhancing students' inferential thinking skills through engaging activities and literature. Students will explore themes from "The Girl Who Married the Moon" while participating in hands-on projects related to the current season, such as using shovels and wheelbarrows. Through vocabulary assignments and prediction exercises, learners will develop their abilities to make inferences based on context clues. Essential questions guide the exploration and discussion, allowing students to practice summarization techniques and critical thinking.

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Exploring Inference through Seasonal Activities and Literature: A Classroom Guide

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  1. Language ArtsTheme 2 The Girl Who Married the Moon

  2. Do Now • I am wearing boots, gloves, and a hat. • I have a shovel and a wheel barrel. • I had to stop at Lowes to pick up a few other things I might need. What season is it? What am I doing?

  3. Essential Question • What is an inference?

  4. Teacher Read AloudVanished • What do you think the purpose of the Mary Celeste’s voyage was? • Why do you think the captain ordered his men to board the Mary Celeste? • The crew left behind their raincoats and sea boots. Why is this a clue that the men left in a hurry? • On what day do you think the crew left the ship? Why?

  5. Turn to page 168-169 • Transparency 2-10

  6. Assignment • Use the following vocabulary in a short, short,story with a partner include at least 2 opportunities for students to inference . • Vocabulary • common room • hearth • kayak • mainland • phases • sod • sparkling • suspicious • village

  7. Summarization Activity • Answer the essential questions. • What is an inference? • Complete La 131.

  8. Do Now • Come up with 3 clues about something so we have to make an inference about what you are thinking. • Look at the example from below. • I am wearing boots, gloves, and a hat. • I have a shovel and a wheel barrel. • I had to stop at Lowes to pick up a few other things I might need. What season is it? What am I doing?

  9. Essential Question • How do I make inferences?

  10. Preview and predict pages 171-181. • Discuss your prediction with a neighbor. • Beginning • Middle • End

  11. Turn to practice book page 132.

  12. Assignment • Read pages 176-181 in your anthology. • Complete practice book page 132.

  13. Ticket Out the Door • Complete the Selection Test.

  14. Assessment • Complete practice lab 133.

  15. Do Now • Make inferences for the following: • Why do you think Moon doesn’t want his wife to go into the storehouse? • How does the wife feel when the piece of light sticks to her face? • How does Moon’s wife feel when Moon finally decides to le her help him with his work?

  16. Essential Question • How do I make inferences?

  17. Level Reader Assignment • Preview and predict. • Complete the vocabulary section. • Look over the graphic organizer. • While you read independently, complete the graphic organizer. • Answer the questions. • Complete PSSA Packet page 18-19. • Read Images of the Moon in the Anthology pages184-187. • Complete PSSA Packet page 21.

  18. Summarization Activity • Complete practice lab 134-135.

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