It's Great 2B a Second Grader!: David Gets in Trouble

Today I taught one of my favorite lessons, Making Inferences using David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon. I even have a letter from David Shannon. Jealous aren't you? This is one of my favorite lessons. Oh and BTW, David is actually in my class this year! I wish that I could post his photo but that is probably a bad idea.

The first thing I did was ask the kids what was going on in the picture. Oh course they said that David ate some of the cake. I asked them how they knew that. The kids said that David has cake on his face and there are finger marks in the cake. Also, he's says "No, it wasn't me!"

Next I taught/discussed this chart with the kids. Focusing on

schema + (text)clues = inference

So, here we go and give it a try.

I find it easier to start on the right side of this chart and work backwards. Here is the first picture and ideas that we wrote down. Boy, do they have some schema about bad words. Before we got into this, I inferred that David was in the bathroom. The kiddos backed my up. They said that there was a pipe coming out of the wall and there was also a towel on the wall.

Great job 2B! What a bunch of smarties!

Okay, on to picture number two. I love that one students said that one of the clues is that there are no bite marks in the eggs. I never even thought of that. I also love that one student said that parents put the food in plastic, so if you refuse to eat it, they will give it to you later! Haha! Wonder what that's all about?

Alright, continuing on. This time I showed the kiddos a picture and sent them back to their desk with three post it notes. They labeled them schema, clues, and inference. Again, I suggested that they work backwards and fill in each post it like we had done together. Then I had the kids bring their post it to the carpet. They each shared what they wrote and then we put them on this chart. Now there were a few kids that missed the mark, but for the most part they all did a great job.