ELA-Infer-AR

Make Inferences - Nonprint - Audiovisual Resources

 * K-2, 3-5**
 * //Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears,// Weston Woods, [|ETV Streamline] (9:42) The 1975 Caldecott Medal children's book by Verna Aardema, with illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon, comes to life in this animated version. A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps through the jungle grapevine - from Mosquito to Iguana to Python to Rabbit to Owl - in this traditional story from Africa. This video provides instructional support for tall tales, African tales and folklore, predictions, inferences, cause and effect, sequencing, and story elements.


 * 3-5**
 * //[|Make Inferences]// BrainPop, Jr. free movie. This short video explains making inferences in a cute cartoon that students love. BrainPop has lots of goodies such as vocabulary, comprehension sheets, interesting facts, easy and hard quizzes, and more. (BrainPop is a subscription site, but this particular movie is free.)


 * //Discovering Language Arts: Nonfiction//, Discovery Channel School,[| ETV Streamline] (38:23) From knowing the characteristics of a variety of nonfiction texts to making inferences to distinguishing between fact and opinion, introduce elementary students to more advanced skills and strategies for understanding and interpreting informational texts.

> This segment explains the process of inference and drawing conclusions about what one reads. It demonstrates the inferences we can make about Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels. > When reading, you can make inferences about implicit and explicit information. We can draw conclusions about the implicit and explicit information in the novel, Wuthering Heights.
 * 6-8**
 * //Inference and Drawing Conclusions// (Discovering Language Arts: Fiction) Discovery Channel School, [|ETV Streamline](5:32)
 * //Implicit and Explicit// (Discovering Language Arts: Non-fiction) Discovery Channel School,[|ETV Streamline] (5:33)