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“Winter Survival” Closer Looking Lesson: Making Inferences

3rd Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
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Quick Facts

Subject: Closer Looking Lesson, ELA, Informational

Type: 1 Lesson Plan

Skills:

  • Participate in collaborative conversations asking and answering "text" dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
  • Analyze details, make inferences
  • Practice  the skill of comparing and contrasting

Materials Needed:

  • blank paper (1 per student)
  • document camera or projector for displaying photographs

Printable Resources: Required:

  • pictures of animals and nature (1 color copy to display recommended);
Optional:
  • "Exit Slip" assessment component (1 copy per student)
  • Classifying Design (1 copy for teacher display)

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.3, RI.3.7, & SL.3.1, SL.3.2, SL.3.3

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Teaching students to infer and analyze can be challenging with the written word.  In this “closer looking” lesson based around two photographs containing animals and nature. Your students will:

  • Collaborate  with partners answering text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
  • Analyze critical details and determine their classifications
  • Infer and determine main ideas
  • Complete an independent exit slip at the end of the lesson to gauge students understanding

This lesson incorporates 3rd Grade NGSS standards:

  • LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience When the environment changes in ways that affect a place’s physical characteristics, temperature, or availability of resources, some organisms survive and reproduce, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment, and some die (secondary to 3-LS4-4)