Monday, June 13, 2011

How to Teach Inference: Inferential or Logical Thinking

How to Teach Inference: Inferential or Logical Thinking

 Inferential thinking skills: reader use context clues with the filter of their own background knowledge to form or draw logical conclusions.
 
Hi Stephanie,
You have many important questions and non have fast easy answers, I will try to help with suggestions and activities to help you and Brady develop a strong educational plan.

The first question I will try to address is "He is reading above grade level but struggles with pragmatics (if it isn't specifically stated in the text he has trouble drawing inferences)"

Developmentally students move from a concrete or literal thinking to a more complex inferential thinking by the age of 11. Students with cognitive delays may take longer to gain the reasoning skills to infer and think abstractly. Also students raised in a language poor learning environment will show delays in background knowledge that is the foundations for strong reasoning skills and inferential thinking.

 Updated Resources. 

[PDF]Strategies for Inferencing: 5th Grade PDF
STRATEGIES FOR INFERENCING. 5" GRADE. STRATEGY 1: TEACHER: Review with students: Aninference is a conclusion made by connecting prior ...

[PDF]Inferencing Mini Lesson .pdf
Research-Based Lesson Planning and Delivery Guide. Mini-Lesson Planning for Inferences. Benchmark(s)/Standard(s): What is the next benchmark(s) on my ...

[PDF]Teaching Inference - 40th Day of Reading Conference
Teaching Inference. Inference is a complex skill and is included in many other types of reading strategies. Good readers need to be able to coordinate.

[PDF]making inferences: reading between the lines
Readers frequently need to find small clues that lead them to infer— ... In this workshop, we will start out simple with making inferences based on conversations.

[PDF]Making Inferences
Objective. • Use story details. • Life experiences. • Prior knowledge. • To make inferences about a character. (feelings) and. • Prior knowledge. (feelings) and.

[PDF]Effective Teaching of Inference Skills for Reading - ERIC
Effective Teaching of Inference Skills for. Reading. Literature Review. Anne Kispal. National Foundation for Educational Research. The views expressed in this ...

[PDF]Planning a Strategy Teaching Lesson - Wayland Public Schools
That's an inference. Concepts to Teach. What are the important concepts that you will teach within this Unit of Study? 1. Using dramatic action to define inferring.

[PDF]Unit of Study: Making Inferences
Anchor Lesson: 11 Inferring with poems. Pre-assessment. Turn and talk to your partner about what you can use to infer while reading poems. Notes to Build Next.

[PDF]Using Literature To Teach Inference Across the Curriculum.pdf
Using Literature to Teach Inference across the Curriculum page. 16. Voices from the Middle, Volume 20 Number 1, September 2012. William P. Bintz, Petra ...

[PDF]Explicit Instruction for Implicit Meaning - William & Mary School of ...
Strategies for Teaching Inferential Reading Comprehension ... inferences and showcases strategies for explicit instruction of inferential comprehension skills. ..... 

Ways to help students build abstract reasoning skills.


  • Field trips are always the best way to build experiential or background knowledge which is the foundation of reasoning.

  • Reading, telling, and sharing jokes with students helps to build inferential skills.
  • Reading poetry and listening to songs. Poetry has layers of meaning and is a great place to study literary and poetic devises that must are difficult to grasp. 

  • Playing vocabulary games to develop a deeper understanding of figurative language. Lakeshore learning makes great games. 

  • Ask students open-ended questions that have no contextual answer but many answers. Why does Lord Voldemort hate, fear, and grudgingly regard Harry Potter?
  • Using plays, movies, and TV to help students make connections to inferential thinking. 
Reading Between The Lines is Difficult!
Shrek: For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.Donkey: Example? Shrek: Example... uh... ogres are like onions! [holds up an onion, which Donkey sniffs] Donkey: They stink? Shrek: Yes... No! Donkey: Oh, they make you cry? Shrek: No! Donkey: Oh, you leave 'em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs... Shrek: [peels an onion] NO! Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers. [walks off] Donkey: Oh, you both have LAYERS. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions. What about cake? Everybody loves cake! Shrek: I don't care what everyone else likes! Ogres are not like cakes. Donkey: You know what ELSE everybody likes? Parfaits! Have you ever met a person, you say, "Let's get some parfait," they say, "Hell no, I don't like no parfait"? Parfaits are delicious! Shrek: NO! You dense, irritating, miniature beast of burden! Ogres are like onions! End of story! Bye-bye! See ya later. Donkey: Parfait's gotta be the most delicious thing on the whole damn planet! Link to IMDB Quote
  
Using Inferential Vocabulary With Students: Going Beyond Who? What? When? Where? and How?  

Guess, predict, empathize, feelings, conclude, assume, deduce, anticipate, hypothesize, envision, foresee, presume, judge, critique, figure, conceive, surmise, expect, assess, summarize, foretell, anticipate, conjecture, opinion.

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I love your blog! I'm writing to ask for your opinion if it wouldn't be too much of an imposition. My son is very bright and has mild Aspergers. He is reading above grade level but struggles with pragmatics (if it isn't specifically stated in the text he has trouble drawing inferences). I am homeschooling him for 2nd grade because we were unable to find a program that seemed like a good fit. He is labeled "twice exceptional" and has an amazing, wonderful, fascinating brain. I kept hearing the words "he can't" when he clearly can do anything he sets his mind to. He was starting to feel like a problem child and hate learning, when he has always been curious, interested, and happy to read anything interesting that I provided. So, we decided to take advantage of the large homeschooling community in our area and will be giving it a try, but I'd like some guidance from a professional that has high standards and understands learning differences. I've seen your comments on Huffington Post and read your blog and you seem to be an incredible teacher with a great understanding of kids and reading. I would really appreciate any suggestions you would be willing to share.

I am having trouble finding a good Language Arts curriculum that will challenge and interest him and we start homeschooling in 2 weeks. For 1st grade his school used Scott Foresman Reading which seemed to be almost an entire grade level above what our Virginia public schools are using. I would just skip to a 3rd grade LA curriculum but I think he needs more practice due to his issues with pragmatics which negatively impacts his reading comprehension (he remembers what he has read, but might not understand it thoroughly due to difficulty drawing conclusions). He is very good at spelling, has the vocabulary of a much older child, and is very interested in science and technology. My plan for the summer is to help him develop an ear for the English Language through reading poetry together, listening to songs and analyzing the various methods used by song writers to make lyrics interesting (double meanings, alliteration, rhyming, patterns, etc.), reading well written literature that has stood the test of time, and reading news for kids to understand writing for different purposes. He already knows what homophones, nouns, proper nouns, and antonyms are and has fun discussing them as we read so I would like to continue with grammar but it will not be our main focus. We will be using Mad Libs to continue learning parts of speech in addition to any curriculum.

I am looking for ways of determining his reading level. His teacher was unable to provide much information, but when I asked if 3rd grade books would be too advanced, she said no. I would guess that he reads at a 4th grade level. I am looking for a good reading list (chapter books, websites, magazines, and poetry).

More Information:
Writing is a struggle for him. Keeping an idea in his head and remembering all of the rules and how to form lower case letters at the same time is very challenging, so I am looking for a Language Arts curriculum that inspires him to want to write.Handwriting is a struggle, but he has asked that we begin learning cursive, so I will give it a try without pushing too hard. I'm trying to decide if narration, dictation, and copy work would be good tools for us to use until he is more developmentally ready to write down his thoughts independently and he will be using software to learn to type to see if that helps him put his thoughts down on paper more easily.
He scores 99th percentile on standardized tests (ERB).

Brady will turn 7 on July first, so he was always the youngest in his class. That is one of the reasons I was willing to take the chance on a year long homeschooling experiment; if I had it to do all over again I would have waited a year to put him in school. We didn't know he was on the Autism Spectrum until he was 5 and he was so bright that I put him in preschool at 3. His teachers said holding him back a year would be a mistake because he was already so bored, and he does very well when worked with one on one, so hopefully I am not damaging him for life!

Is there a standardized test that is a better indicator of understanding and knowledge than the school system typically uses? In Virginia we are required to test each year as proof of progress when homeschooling, but it seems many standardized tests these days are more about the teacher than the student.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, any recommendations at all would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely, Stephanie 


Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for your letter and kind words about Reading Sage. I will give all your questions deliberate thought and consideration to help you and your son form a useful education plan. Stephanie, I would like to post your letter to the Reading Sage blog and answer your questions there to help other parents and teachers that may have similar questions. May I have your permission to repost your letter. Thank you for your questions. Sean

P.S. Please go on lots of field trips this summer with your son and get some great joke books to read. Jokes are a great way to teach inferential thinking. Field trips are a great way to build background knowledge that is critical to inferential thinking. Who? What? When? Where? and How? are part of inferential thinking and background knowledge is the key. A note on expectations: Students transition from concrete operational thinking to more logical and inferential thinking at about age 11. Your son will strengthen and further develop these skills in time with the right learning environment.

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Teaching children with Intellectual Disabilities (mental retardation) to read.

How to teach students with Intellectual Disabilities (mental retardation) to read!

Are children with Intellectual Disabilities (Mental Retardation) or severe learning disabilities really able to learn how to read? The simple answer is, yes, when the child, parents, and school all seek to make the goal of reading a priority. My personal teaching experience in a self-contained cross-category class taught me all students can read. The reason my first principal hired me was in part, my difficulties learning to read in the primary grades due to my severe dyslexia. My road to literacy was hideously tedious, to say the least, and left me feeling worthless. Endless hours running recorded flashcards through a tape recorder with no chance of reading quality literature.
     After twelve years of teaching and a Masters in Special Education and I am still learning from my special needs students better ways to teach reading. The methods, structures, and strategies that I use and developed are all in a philosophy I call Reading Boot Camp. The ideas and structures were developed to help the most sever learning disabled students learn to read. The program as an intervention shows most LD students gain two years ability in the twenty days. Please read more about Reading Boot Camp,

My Story,
Written and spoken English (Morpheme-based grapheme to phoneme) was a bunch of cuneiform squiggles that swam around on the page. My disconnect was the morpheme grapheme to phoneme conversion. I was unable to make a bridge between the auditory and visual patters, rules of reading phonetically. Most of my teachers including special education teachers had no clue what I was experiencing. The schools solution for my dyslexia was modification, accommodation and very infective remediation, that left me illiterate and always two or three years behind my peers. 

My special education teacher used a Bell and Howell tape machine that read flash cards to teach me how to sight read, most of my early memories are sitting with that infernal machine running cards through over and over. My grandmother bought me a record player with read along stories like Jungle Book and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This was superior to the flash cards. I would were-out needles and records listening so hard to make sense of the hieroglyphs on the page that I knew made up great stories.

At home I could read high adventure with the help of my record player, at school I was reading books that I believed and thought were for the stupid kids!

For parents and teachers of exceptional learners I would suggest a listening lab with books on tape also lots of music with lyrics. Please stop and get help from a professional before you use or buy software programs, that are just a modern Bell and Howell tape machine, as I said the learning was hideous! Students must learn and practice tracking text with their finger for all reading activities even if they cannot sight read or decode at the beginning! They need to read along out-loud as much as possible. The repetition of the songs and the books on tape will eventually make a bridge. And always the reading material has to be high interest. I was bored to death page flipping my easy read books and using my tape machine.

REMEDIAL READING PROGRAMS ARE BASED ON LEARNING CRITICAL VOCABULARY 

  • 107 words make up over 50% of the words you read! 
  • 1000 words make up 75-80% of the words you read! 
  • 5,000 words make up 85-90% of the words you read!
Start by assessing reading levels!

Children that qualify for remedial reading programs have a 500-1000 or even a 2000 word deficit. Children need a crash course in phonics, sight word recognition, and fluency/automaticity all while developing strong vocabulary knowledge. Many programs will refocus on phonics and slowly move into sight words then finally, reading comprehension. Reading Boot Camp is a crash course for struggling readers that hit all 5 domains of reading.  


1. Vocabulary: 

The four types of vocabulary. 
auditory, 
spoken, 

reading, 

writing

2. Phonemic Awareness  is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. Separating the spoken word "cat" into three distinct phonemes, /k/, /æ/, and /t/, requires phonemic awareness.

3. Phonics : refers to a method for teaching speakers of English to read and write that language. Phonics involves teaching how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters (e.g., that the sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, ck, ch, or q spellings) and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words.

4. Fluency: is the ability to read text accurately and quickly. Fluency bridges word decoding and comprehension. Comprehension is understanding what has been read. Fluency is a set of skills that allows readers to rapidly decode text while maintaining a high level of comprehension (National Reading Panel, 2001).

5. Reading Comprehension: is defined as the level of understanding of a writing

General Education Students can easily learn to read about 800-1000 words per year! Mentally retarded students can learn 300-500 per year. 

THE WORDS TO START LEARNING FIRST


Dolch Sight Words
Sight words are English words that cannot be sounded out using phonics.

PRESCHOOL: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you

KINDERGARTEN: all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes

1st Grade: after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, giving, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

2nd Grade: always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don't, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your

3rd Grade: about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm

Nouns: apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, good-bye, grass, ground, hand, head, hill, home, horse, house, kitty, leg, letter, man, men, milk, money, morning, mother, name, nest, night, paper, party, picture, pig, rabbit, rain, ring, robin, Santa Claus, school, seed, sheep, shoe, sister, snow, song, squirrel, stick, street, sun, table, thing, time, top, toy, tree, watch, water, way, wind, window, wood


Dr Suess taught countless generations to read using whimsical rhymes, fanciful tales, and kid friendly absurdity. With no more than 300 words we learned phonemic awareness, fluency, sight words and how to read and love books. Today we kill any desire to read and learn as we parse reading into so many boring bits.

Please share your stories or questions about teaching reading!

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Reading Comprehension Test 2nd Grade

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Alaskan Practice Tests 


State Test Questions and Practice/Sample Tests
High School Practice/Sample Tests: click here


Washington State Sample Test WASL

2008 Released Items and Additional Resources

2008 WASL released items and prompts.
 
Reading:
Grade 3 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 4 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 5 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 6 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 7 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 8 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade HS - (Student) (Teacher)
Mathematics:
Grade 3 - (pdf)
Grade 4 - (pdf)
Grade 5 - (pdf)
Grade 6 - (pdf)
Grade 7 - (pdf)
Grade 8 - (pdf)
Grade HS - (pdf)
Science:
Grade 5 - (Word) (pdf)
Grade 8 - (Word) (pdf)
Grade HS - (Word) (pdf)

2007 Released Items and Additional Resources

 
Science:
Science 2007 Released Item Documents:
Grade 5 - (Word) (pdf)
Grade 8 - (Word) (pdf)
Grade 10 - (Word) (pdf)
Reading:
Grade 3 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 4 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 5 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 6 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 7 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 8 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade HS - (Student) (Teacher)
Mathematics:
Grade 3 - (pdf)
Grade 4 - (pdf)
Grade 5 - (pdf)
Grade 6 - (pdf)
Grade 7 - (pdf)
Grade 8 - (pdf)
Grade HS - (pdf)
Writing:

2006 Released Items and Additional Resources
Reading:
Grade 3 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 5 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 6 - (Student) (Teacher)
Grade 8 - (Student) (Teacher)
Mathematics:
Science:
Grade 5 - (Word) (pdf)
Grade 8 - (Word) (pdf)
Grade 10 - (Word) (pdf)

MEAP Michigan Sample Test
Elementary School Documents - Grades 3-5

Fall 2010
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Fall 2009

Fall 2008

Fall 2007
Fall 2006

Fall 2005
Winter 2005 
2004
2003


2002 


2001 

2000 

1999 
 Ohio's Grade 3-8 Achievement Assessments
Grade
Subject
Released Test
Answer Keys/Scoring Guides
3
Reading
Mathematics
4
Reading
May 2010 Answer Key/Scoring Guide
May 2009 Answer Key/Scoring Guide
May 2008 Answer Key/Scoring Guide
(Under construction)
May 2007 Answer Key/Scoring Guide
March 2006 Answer Key/Scoring Guide
March 2005 Answer Key/Scoring Guide
(Under construction)
Mathematics
Writing
5
Reading
Mathematics
Science
May 2010 Partial Test
May 2009 Partial Test
May 2008 Partial Test
May 2007 Full Test
Social Studies
May 2010 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2009 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2008 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2007 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2006 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2005 Answer Document (all subject areas)
6
Reading
Mathematics
May 2010 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2009 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2008 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2007 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2006 Answer Document (all subject areas)
7
Reading
Mathematics
Writing
May 2010 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2009 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2008 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2007 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2006 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2005 Answer Document (all subject areas)
8
Reading
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
May 2010 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2009 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2008 Answer Document (all subject areas)
May 2007 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2006 Answer Document (all subject areas)
March 2005 Answer Document (all subject areas)


Virginia 2009 Released Tests

English


Mathematics

Science


New York State Intermediate (Grades 6-8) Tests

English Language Arts

Science

Mathematics

Social Studies




New York State Elementary (Grades 3-5) Tests

English Language Arts

Science

Mathematics

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Arizona AIMS Sample Items for Students
AIMS Mathematics Sample Tests and Think-Throughs

AIMS Writing Sample Tests and Think-Throughs

AIMS Reading Sample Tests

Science Student Guides

Science Sample Tests

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