To Infer

Tuesday 13 June's Learning

Today we are going to continue to explore the meaning of selected phrases from the poem, 'At the End of the Driveway'. We are going to pay special attention to how the writer uses clues in the poem that the reader can use to form an relevant answer, This is called making an inference, where you use the clues in the text, combined with your own knowledge to explain a key word or phrase.

LI: We are learning to use the skills of inference when we are responding to a text.

SC: I can identify the clues given in the text
SC: I can draw on my own knowledge about the key idea to help me explain
SC: I can combine the clues and my own knowledge to write a relevant paragraph.

Lesson Sequence

Free Writing Challenge

Using the SEX-Y paragraph structure, write about a time when a big experience or challenge was happening in your life.
Further ideas on the board.

Reading

'The Great Ordinary' The Photographs of Edith Amituanai  The full article form the journal. They are on the desk.

Work on Inference 

Poem: 'At the end of the Driveway' by Tim Upperton

We will use our annotated copies form the previous lesson to help us with our discussions and notes.

We will then all write our own answers to the response question, this work is in your Hapara work space.