Last week in reading in my fourth and fifth grade class, we started to focus on the very important foundational skill of making inferences. This

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Teaching text evidence can be challenging…but it can also be a lot of fun! Want to find out how to lead your students step by

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When I teach one of reading’s key concepts, finding the main idea using informational text, I like to start off the unit with something really

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Teaching kids to identify the central message is not an easy task. Most central messages are implied and it takes some inferencing to piece it