Coming up on exam time... students often have to tackle a sight passage. Learning to infer and use their prior knowledge effectively while reading is critical to success with an unfamiliar text. This Google Ad is a fun inference puzzle to give those inference muscles a bit of a workout.
Challenge students to build a list of everything they know or think they know about the couple in the video and the clues in the video that they used to better understand the story being told. Students could work in pairs to complete a table like this:
Next, I'd want them to Identify specific moments in the video that required them to have some prior knowledge in order to better understand the story being told through the searches. I'd ask them to explain how their prior knowledge helped them.
Here's a student worksheet that also includes connections to the classic short story "A Conversation" by Ned Guymon: Inference Worksheet.
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