Good readers make inferences when they read. They use their background knowledge and the text clues to figure things out that the author is SHOWING us not TELLING us.
TELLING: The policeman was angry.
SHOWING: The policemen scrunched up his fists and stomped towards me.
A great way to write show, don’t tell sentences is to describe characters so the reader understands their emotions:
Click the words below to go to the discussion boards and post an example of a SHOW sentence for these emotions.
Bonus tasks!
1) Add a comment with a SHOW sentence about a pirate, and Bosco can guess the emotion!
2) Find the hidden link in this post to play an inference game!
Hey Miss B,
cool photos of faces i wrote lots of things about them happy, sad, angry, nervous, and tired
cya (Michael!!!)
Hey Miss B
This post has a poster about making inferences!
From Kawana
Hey Miss B,
I think making inferences is really important, especially when there are no pictures.
Hannah
Hey Miss B,
I kinda had fun doing this we should do this more often.
From Bailey.
The hidden game is hard took me about 6 minutes.
adam.