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ERIC Number: EJ1291650
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0270-2711
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Improving Children's Reading Comprehension by Teaching Inferences
Maguet, McKenna Louise; Morrison, Timothy G.; Wilcox, Brad; Billen, Monica T.
Reading Psychology, v42 n3 p264-280 2021
Reading comprehension is the goal of reading, and making inferences is vital. Authors usually expect readers to make multiple types of inferences, including anaphoric, background knowledge, predictive, and retrospective. Common core assessments include all of these, yet instructional materials focus mostly on only one type, retrospective. This article describes how teachers in one school district in the Inter-Mountain West used each inference type to enhance instruction. They found that although common core materials provided them with some inferencing questions, they gave minimal support in how to teach inferences. These teachers successfully supplemented with Question-Answer Relationships (QAR), think-alouds, and sentence frames. By explicitly teaching all four inference types, inferencing took its place as the cornerstone of reading comprehension and helped students deepen their knowledge.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress
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