Comments on: Inferences: “He’s wearing a jacket so it must be his birthday” http://readerswithautism.com/2009/08/%e2%80%9che%e2%80%99s-wearing-a-jacket-so-it-must-be-his-birthday%e2%80%9d/ Help for struggling readers on the autism spectrum Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:42:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ann http://readerswithautism.com/2009/08/%e2%80%9che%e2%80%99s-wearing-a-jacket-so-it-must-be-his-birthday%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Ann Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:43:40 +0000 http://readerswithautism.com/?p=27#comment-148 Your inference lesson is very interesting. Sounds like these are pretty high-functioning students. What ages? Would you do this with 8-10 year olds that aren't quite as verbal? Ann Your inference lesson is very interesting. Sounds like these are pretty high-functioning students. What ages? Would you do this with 8-10 year olds that aren’t quite as verbal?

Ann

]]> By: Jeanne http://readerswithautism.com/2009/08/%e2%80%9che%e2%80%99s-wearing-a-jacket-so-it-must-be-his-birthday%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jeanne Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:32:52 +0000 http://readerswithautism.com/?p=27#comment-6 <strong>From Jeanne</strong> Comment #1: Sounds as though the kids are motivated to participate in the detective work. But I was puzzled as to how the need for defining the objectives of the word search is conveyed. How do they get from a passage with no words underlined to "setting,character,and event?" Comment #2: How do you convince kids to abandon inferences that don't hold up with additional info? I was reading with a boy about the first moon landing. When we got to the point where the book said that a landing module was going to separate from the space capsule, the kid said "One man will go to the moon and the other two will stay in the space capsule." Knowing that that wasn't gomg to be how it was, I said "Let's read further in the book and see - I think maybe two men landed on the moon and one stayed in the space capsule." The boy maintained his own "inference," and we never read further in the story because he evidently didn't want to explore. Crucally, I wanted to convey the idea that information can be found in books, but didn't wanted to imply that books are never wrong. Jeanne From Jeanne
Comment #1: Sounds as though the kids are motivated to participate in the detective work. But I was puzzled as to how the need for defining the objectives of the word search is conveyed. How do they get from a passage with no words underlined to “setting,character,and event?”

Comment #2: How do you convince kids to abandon inferences that don’t hold up with additional info? I was reading with a boy about the first moon landing. When we got to the point where the book said that a landing module was going to separate from the space capsule, the kid said “One man will go to the moon and the other two will stay in the space capsule.” Knowing that that wasn’t gomg to be how it was, I said “Let’s read further in the book and see – I think maybe two men landed on the moon and one stayed in the space capsule.” The boy maintained his own “inference,” and we never read further in the story because he evidently didn’t want to explore. Crucally, I wanted to convey the idea that information can be found in books, but didn’t wanted to imply that books are never wrong.

Jeanne

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