Does anyone have any recommendations for great picture books (read alouds) to use while teaching kids to infer? Thanks!
Predictable books (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, etc.) are good for inferences. I'm starting inferences next week, and checking my bookshelf tomorrow for good titles...I'll keep you updated on what I find.
David Shannon books! On one page the dog is chasing a ball and the next page there is a broken vase with dirt and flowers everywhere...what can you infer happened? David Weisner books and the Good Dog, Carl books - they are both wordless. Chris Van Allsburg has some great ones, also.
There is a wordless picture book called "Window" that I use often (the author's name eludes me! sorry!), I also read a book called "If Not For the Cat" that was great too. "Wild About Books", "The Table Where Rich People Sit". I hope that helps!
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber is a good one. Can I recommend you read Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller?? She has alot of great lessons on all the reading strategies and its geared toward primary. I use it throughout the year and her suggestions work!
I use "The Important Book" when I'm teaching inferring. If you're not familiar with it, it lists an object....say a spoon....and then it starts out with "The important thing about a spoon is that you eat with it"...Then it goes on to list other things that describe or tell about a spoon, but then ends with "but the important thing about a spoon is that you eat with it." I will read the first one to my class, but then I will read the rest omitting the name of the object/thing that is important and they have to infer what the object/thing is by the clues. Kids love it!
