The first lesson my 3rd grader does for inferring is to...
Tell her students she has a problem. She has these new neighbors, but she hasn't met them yet. They must have moved in at night, because one day the house was for sale and the next thing she saw it was sold, but she never saw them moving. She keeps seeing their lights go on and off, but no one ever leaves the house... and it is driving her nuts so she stole their recycling this morning.
She then proceeds to pull out a recycling bag, and tells the kids she needs their help figuring out what kind of people they are.
The trash isn't actually stolen, it's hers and she puts travel brochuers and a plane ticket, gatorade bottles, protein bar wrappers, water bottles.
They then learn to make inferences.
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