Inferencing Investigations
In the month of January students become investigators. It is their job to use clues from stories to infer what a character is doing and how a character is feeling. I start off by using "Inferencing Investigation" by Babbling Abby. This activity requires the students to listen to a story about a boy and his grandmother. The story leaves out details from their snowy day activities. It is the students' job to infer what the boy did with his grandmother based on clues in their "Snow Day Case File". I split the class up into five different groups. Each group has their own case file that they use. The clues from each file go with other clues, but the students do not realize this until we come back together and talk about what they found.
Some of the clues have times attached to the event, so we were able to create this timeline. Each child chose one event and illustrated it.
There was a writing component to this project as well. Students were instructed to choose one piece of evidence and the matching inference to create a sentence using the frame "Based on _______, I infer that ________________________________." These are samples of the wonderful writing and illustrations that my students produced.
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