Inference Training
A reading comprehension intervention for pupils in KS2 who have age appropriate decoding skills but who are experiencing difficulty acquiring full meaning and enjoyment from their reading. |
Inference training demonstrates key comprehension strategies through “instructional conversations” in groups to help boost reading comprehension. Through reading and interactive discussions, the group:
- Activate and apply prior knowledge to their reading and use title cues to predict
- Identify key words and elaborate on them to enhance meaning, and develop vocabulary
- Generate their own questions and answer them
- Generate inferences and integrate meaning as they read to build a gist
- Summarise a short text extract using visualisation, quick pictures, picto-words and a 10 word or less headline
- Retell an extract to emphasise the gist
