Our last book was
Charging Foul. In our follow-up discussion, one student's question led to a great teaching opportunity about how we make inferences when we read. Students realized that we often have to figure out what is probably true, and that to do so, we have to bring in our knowledge of the world. But one's inferences have to stay close to the information provided by or hinted at by the author.
We worked on reading multisyllabic words with r-controlled vowels. We want students to be able to recognize these common patterns without having to stop to think or sound out.
