Download Lesson Plan: Making Inferences – Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing
Making Inferences, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing
Objective
This lesson is designed to teach primary students to make inferences as a reading comprehension strategy. The lesson uses the book, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett. In this lesson, students will draw on their prior knowledge and use the information from the pictures in the book to articulate (verbalize) the inference the author is making in the text. This is the first of a set of lessons designed to teach students how to make inferences.
Planning and Diagnostics
For students to successfully complete this lesson, they should know how to connect what they already know to the text. They should be able to make guesses and predictions related to a story and visualize what is happening in the story. For further information, you may want to review Activating Prior Knowledge.
Materials
- Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett
- Construction paper
- Crayons
