(or how to know what you think but don't really know)

Start with what they can see.

Students still know comics.  This activity asks them to infer from a comic strip (the middle picture) and allows them to check their inferences with the actual comic strip

This activity asks the students to view art on-line and infer from it.

Move into those things that are really written.  This activity asks the students to infer the ending of a short story (actually Aesop's fables)

Finally use and entire story to infer and use the literary terms necessary.  This activity uses Rikki-Tikki-Tavvi for inference.

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