To help my students learn how to infer while reading, we had a mystery to solve in our classroom. Below you will find the background information about the mystery. :)
A student named Tim woke up one morning to six inches of snow. He was ecstatic to learn that his Grandma Sue would be staying with him on the snow day. When Tim's mother came home from work that evening, Tim and Grandma Sue were nowhere to be found! Tim's mom collected some "evidence" from around the house to help figure out what Tim and Grandma Sue had done on the snow day. This is where my class got involved! We were given 5 case files filled with evidence collected by Tim's mom. Each group was asked to remove one piece of evidence, write it down on the paper, and use their inferencing skills to decide what Tim and Grandma Sue had done that day.
Case file group working together to solve the problem!
Here is an example of the case file inferencing sheet. They wrote their evidence in the left column, and their inference in the right column.
Hot chocolate is evidence???
The Inference Investigators are working together to solve the problem!
Some evidence! What do you think Tim and Grandma Sue did on the snow day?
This is the case file each group was given (they all had similar evidence).
Once each group observed their evidence, we created a timeline of what we infer Tim and Grandma Sue did on the snow day. We were able to answer questions about their day based on the evidence that was collected. The best part was that my students truly believed they were solving a mystery! They had so much fun and didn't even realize they were doing school work. I just love to watch them learn! :)
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