Reading Skills as Life Skills

Teaching kids to infer helps them with more than reading. You don't have to limit teaching inferring word meaning to traditional texts. No matter the setting, students need to master this skill in order to understand their world and make good decisions.

In FACS, students look at a variety of items to analyze what they should do. Consider how you can imbed inferring skills into your regular instruction. Model your thinking. Ask questions rather than tell. Just a few minutes of attention to inferring skills can make a big impact on student learning.

When students infer, they think. And, our job is to develop thinkers.