A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage as a way to determine the main idea.

Concepts

making inferences, reading comprehension strategies, main ideas

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have your class scan the comic pages of the newspaper to find additional examples of main ideas that are not directly stated
• Copy the reading passages onto a handout to make review and reference easier

Classroom Considerations

• Some of the examples are a little scary (one is about scaring a baby in a psychological experiment, another is about a dog eating other dogs)

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Video is a good length for homework or independent viewing in a computer lab 
• Provides reading passages and cartoons to demonstrate the concept

Cons

• Video is not very engaging
• Slides with reading passages include too much text

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.5.1 RL.5.2 RI.4.1 RI.4.2 RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RL.6.1 RL.6.2 RI.6.1 RI.6.2