Begin crime scene investigation...
This week our reading strategies are Inferring and Drawing Conclusions. On Monday, the kids wrote observations about the crime scene. No inferring what happened or why. Just observations! Then Tuesday, we used those observations to draw conclusions about what happened and who created the mess in our room. Friday's lesson will focus on using these observations as evidence to write sentences. A huge part of reading this year is using the text to support your responses, so we created a list of sentence starters to do so. Since we didn't have text for this activity, we used our observations!
This activity provided the students a real life reason to observe. Then those observations were used as evidence to support their conclusions. This is also an easy activity to recreate at home to have your child practice these thinking strategies! We'll do more detective work as the year goes on, so students get used to looking for evidence within the text.
Evidence Sentence Starters
*On page _______, it said...
*The author wrote...
*For instance...
*According to the text...
*From the reading, I know that...
*For example...
*Based on what I read...
*The graphic showed...
*Based on the illustration...
