In this social studies lesson, Laurie taps into her students’ unique learning styles to make inferences using students’ prior knowledge and textual information. Students are given the option to read an excerpt from a letter, listen to a song, study a map, or analyze a portrait about the Trail of Tears. View this video to see how Laurie uses the think aloud strategy to model the activity for her students and provides graphic organizers scaffolded according to students’ English language proficiency levels to support her students’ writing. Winter 2015