Over the school year, teachers engaged in specific lessons with students to target and teach inferencing skills as part of their literacy programs. 

Some Examples:

Division 5 learned about infographics in their SS/ELA unit on current events. They learned to examine them  then discussed what the person who created them was trying to have their audience learn from the infographic.

Division 12 learned inferencing in their Biographical Unit. They learned to call inferencing “off the page thinking” and the students made inferences about an influential person they were learning about, learning also to take notes about the facts they learned and inferences they made. 

Division 9 focused on making inferences during teacher read-alouds.  And in science students learned the scientific method which was also connected to making inferences.  These students also learned to analyze some poetry. Inferencing was connected when students practiced finding evidence (in the form of direct quotes from the poems) to determine the main idea of theme of a poem.

Division 14 learned to infer what a character was thinking. In the photos below you can see how they wrote a caption for what Stanley the dog is thinking in various points of the story (from Stanley's Party). Likewise, those primary students also looked at images and came up with a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end—all based on inferences they made from the image.