Inferencing Table; inferencing from texts

This is a very simple resource but it has had a huge impact on reading in my class. The children have been struggling with inferencing and I was finding it difficult to scaffold them in develoing this skill. We have been talking a lot about our brains and thinking skills (metacognition) recently and I've introduced the term &'schema&';. They now know that to inference they must use words from the text, what they already know (schema), add them together and the result is an inference! The table supports them in this.