Students have already read The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese. Today we are going to be detectives. We are going to learn how to use clues in a story along with what we already know to figure out what the author means. This is called inferencing. Teacher explains steps in inferencing using the inferencing poster.
Teacher makes sure that everyone has a copy of the book.
Open your book to page 1 and follow along as I read aloud. Teacher reads page 1 aloud. Now I'm going to show you how I find clues in the story along with my prior knowledge to figure out what this part is about. It says that the five brothers look exactly alike. I know from previous experiences that when siblings look exactly alike they are usually twins or triplets, etc.