David Newman

Inference Activities 2nd Edition David Newman

Publisher Marketing: Help your students with reading comprehension difficulties learn to infer in fiction and non-fiction text. The inference activities workbook is an easy to use workbook that will engage your students with high interest scenarios. Each scenario contains shallow level inference and deep level inference questions which help to prompt your students' critical thinking and problem solving skills. For school students ages 8 -12 "This book features..." A pre-test post-test section and rating progress charts to help track student progress 832 inference questions, both shallow level inference and deep level inference "Communicative Reading Strategies" and graphic organizers to explore inference questions in detail Many of the inference activities feature illustrations combined with text Inference activities at sentence level featuring "time, location, what, who, " and "why" questions 100 paragraph level non-fiction scenarios 100 paragraph level fiction scenarios A unique illustrated fable, written exclusively for the Inference Activities 2nd Edition book: Mount Bump and the Iron Necklace The Inference Activities 2nd Edition workbook is an easy to use manual that has been designed to engage your students to prompt and activiate your students' higher order thinking skills. Students are prompted to look beyond surface details in the text and find the often hiddenmeaning which children's book authors require their readers to infer. Inference requires students to go beyond surface level meaning to unlock a text's meaning. Contributor Bio:  Newman, David David M. Newman is currently Professor of Sociology at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He received his PhD. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 1988. He teaches courses in Deviance, Mental Illness, Family, Social Psychology, and Research Methods and has won teaching awards at both the University of Washington and DePauw University. He has published numerous articles on teaching and has presented several research papers on the intersection of gender and power in intimate relationships. He has authored two textbooks, "Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life" (and co-edited an accompanying anthology) and "Sociology of Families." When not hunkered down in his third floor office he enjoys running, swimming, and arguing with his teenage sons.