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Category Archives: Inference Resources

What part of the population does the most gambling?

May 31, 2012

Acccording to Stats Canada (2010) people earning less than 20,000 per year (the poorest people in our society) spend the most …

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Writing Captions: inferring

May 29, 2012

Have students write a caption to go along with this photo. Help students with inferring by trying these prompts: What …

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What kind of a guy is Rooney? (Inference question for intermediate/senior students)

May 27, 2012

Read Roony’s Boxing Gym rules and think about the question, “What kind of a guy is Rooney?” How do you …

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Use Animated film “A lovecraft dream” as a writing prompt

May 17, 2012

A short film (about 6 minutes) by Leonardo Manna,  based on the real H.P.Lovecraft character and his nightmares. Appropriate for …

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Unnamable, Unimaginable Thing in My Basement

May 16, 2012

In this Burnistoun, Lovecraftian comedy sketch, a housing administrator interviews a tenant who has a complaint about an unnameable, unimaginable thing …

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Pee in a Cup: Finding Voice

May 8, 2012

13-year old student example of Voice in Writing: Giving them that urine sample, that’s always a pleasure isn’t it. There …

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Writing Captions for Photographs

May 7, 2012

Read the story that goes with the photograph and make up another suitable title. Use that idea for a caption. …

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Crane Accident: Spotting the doctored photo

May 7, 2012

The 2005 Crane Accident is a series of 11 photographs involving one small car and two large cranes is an excellent text to …

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Right There Clues/What I Can Infer

May 6, 2012

“Right there” clues(clues I can find right in the text) What I can infer(educated guess I can make based on …

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I wish words…

May 4, 2012

Use this artifact (or make one yourself) and challenge students to find passages that might be able to change lives, …

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