Snail's Journey: Reading Detective Skills
Year 2 English Learning to retrieve information and make inferences Becoming reading detectives!
WALT: We Are Learning To...
Retrieve information from a story (find exact facts) Make inferences using clues (work out feelings and reasons) Use sentence starters to explain our answers Create our own detective questions (extension)
Success Criteria: How We Know We've Succeeded
I can answer at least 3 comprehension questions correctly I can explain my answers using the text or pictures I can use sentence starters to help structure my answers Extension: I can write inference questions for classmates
Reading Detective Skills
Retrieval = Finding exact information in the story Inference = Using clues to work out feelings and reasons not directly stated
Detective Practice: Question Examples
Retrieval Question: 'What was on the snail's back?' Inference Question: 'Why do you think the snail moved slowly?' Let's practice finding the difference! Think-Pair-Share: Which type of question is each one?
Sentence Starters: Detective Tools
'I think ___ because ___' 'The text says ___ so I believe ___' 'I can infer that ___ because ___' These help us explain our detective thinking!
Guided Detective Work: Snail's Journey Questions
Work in pairs to answer these detective questions: 1. Where did the snail go? (retrieval) 2. What did the snail see? (retrieval) 3. Why did the snail pause to rest? (inference) 4. How did the snail feel at the end? (inference) Use your sentence starters!
Differentiation & Extension Activities
Support: Sentence starters and visual aids available Challenge: Create your own inference questions for classmates Alternative: Answer orally or with drawings Advanced: Write a diary entry as the snail describing feelings