What part of the population does the most gambling?
Acccording to Stats Canada (2010) people earning less than 20,000 per year (the poorest people in our society) spend the most …
Category Archives: Inference Resources
Writing Captions: inferring
Have students write a caption to go along with this photo. Help students with inferring by trying these prompts: What …
What kind of a guy is Rooney? (Inference question for intermediate/senior students)
Read Roony’s Boxing Gym rules and think about the question, “What kind of a guy is Rooney?” How do you …
Use Animated film “A lovecraft dream” as a writing prompt
A short film (about 6 minutes) by Leonardo Manna, based on the real H.P.Lovecraft character and his nightmares. Appropriate for …
Unnamable, Unimaginable Thing in My Basement
In this Burnistoun, Lovecraftian comedy sketch, a housing administrator interviews a tenant who has a complaint about an unnameable, unimaginable thing …
Pee in a Cup: Finding Voice
13-year old student example of Voice in Writing: Giving them that urine sample, that’s always a pleasure isn’t it. There …
Writing Captions for Photographs
Read the story that goes with the photograph and make up another suitable title. Use that idea for a caption. …
Crane Accident: Spotting the doctored photo
The 2005 Crane Accident is a series of 11 photographs involving one small car and two large cranes is an excellent text to …
Right There Clues/What I Can Infer
“Right there” clues(clues I can find right in the text) What I can infer(educated guess I can make based on …
I wish words…
Use this artifact (or make one yourself) and challenge students to find passages that might be able to change lives, …
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