1. Making Inferences about Characters
Quarter 1 Week 2
Day 2

2. Connection
We have been using information or clues from a reading selection and connecting them to our own background knowledge or prior experiences to make inferences about our reading.
This has helped us make a picture or mental image of a character, event, or scene.

3. Teaching Point
To help us better understand what we read, we will learn how to apply the strategy of making inferences about characters.

4. Teaching
Today we are going to read a short section from the Prologue and chapters 1-2 in the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.
As I read this selection there are a few questions I am going to keep in the back of my mind that may help me determine how the characters, the Tucks, are feeling.
What mental image comes to mind for the Tucks?
How do the Tucks act? What are their actions, thoughts, and words?

5. The Text Says:
My Background Knowledge:
My Inference:
The author has to know:
I know:
I think the Author:
August is a hot summer month. Summer is sometimes called “dog days” due to the heat.
The tree and spring in the middle of Treegap is important to the story. The spring has been covered up with rocks.
The month of August is extremely hot in North Carolina.
Springs bubble from the ground up and provide drinking water.
Is trying to set the scene for the novel. Describing the heat paints a picture of the setting.
Is trying to convey how special the tree/spring are as it has been hidden by rocks.

6. Link
Today we learned how to make inferences about characters to think about what the author wants us to know about the characters.
As you read, think about these same questions to make inferences about characters in books you read independently.

7. What mental image comes to mind for the main characters?
How do the characters act?
How do other characters view them or each other?