INFER Strategy
The first step of the inference strategy tells us to do what with the questions and text?
What is INTERACT
What type of question asks for the TONE of the text?
What is Big Picture Questions
What is the moral of "The Little Red Hen?"
Vocabulary: The small pieces of food the hen gave out to her chicks.
What are morsels.
What do you think would have happened if the other animals had agreed to help the little red hen?
She would have been happy to share her bread because they had helped with the work.
Note what you know means to write down what?
What is all the things you know about the text.
This type of question requires you to take the question directly from the text.
What is factual.
What is the reason the author wrote this story?
To entertain.
How many hours was the rat idle per day according to the hen?
7
Why was Ms Red hen feeling torn in her duty?
Because she knew her chicks needed her but, she also knew that the wheat would help to feed them.
When we are in the FINDING CLUES stage of the INFER strat what should we be doing?
What is looking and highlighting clues that help to answer questions.
This type of question uses the who what where questions?
TONE: "Turning their backs with snippy glee" What does the wording of these sentence make you feel about the other animals attitude toward the hen?
They felt they were too good to help the hen. They were upity with her and didn't want her to bother them anymore.
What was the rat doing while the hen was baking bread?
Powdering his nose.
Vocabulary: Her hopes were dashed. In this sentence what does the word "dashed" mean?
Destroyed, thrown away
When we return to the questions, what should we be doing?
What is answering the question?
There are two main types of questions. These two categories are what?
What are Think and Seek and Factual.
What is the difference between Ms Hen and the rest of the characters?
She is hardworking and believes it is important for her to work for what she needs and wants. The other animals are lazy and expect to get something for nothing.
When the hen was finished baking the bread she resist doing ONLY with difficulty? Meaning it was hard for her to NOT do this
Dance and sing
Vocabulary: What does the word wafted mean?
Blew up with the wind
It is important to know the steps of INFER because it helps us to what?
What is understand what we are reading?
Think and seek questions are broken down into four types. Name them.
What are Factual, Big Picture, Clarifying, and predicting?
Throughout the story the little red hen never loses hop that what?
The other animals would help her one day.
Vocabulary: what does the word idle mean in the story?
Not doing anything productive. Being lazy
Explain what the author means by "A busy little body she was"
The little red hen is always working and taking care of her biddies.