11/12/20

Teacher: Kristi DiMeo

Grade: 3rd
Subject: ELA

1. Content and Standards: CC.1.2.3.B Ask and answer questions about the text and make
inferences from the text; refer to text to support responses.

2. Prerequisites:
- Some basic reading skills
- Some basic writing skills
- Some basic listening skills
- Knowledge of context clues
- Knowledge of making an inference

3. Essential Question: When do readers infer and what is their inference based on?

4. Materials and Equipment:

- Computer: The teacher will need a computer in order to conduct the lesson. The students
will need a computer in order to read the passage and answer the corresponding questions
using Nearpod.
- Inference Google slides presentation: The teacher will use the slides in order to teach the
meaning of inferences. The students will examine each slide in order to engage in the
lesson.
- Blast Off! Mae Jemison Goes Into Space reading passage: The students will read the
passage and answer the corresponding questions using Nearpod. The teacher will review
the passage with the class.

5. Instructional Objective: After reading Blast Off! Mae Jemison Goes Into Space, the
students will identify the correct answer for at least 8 of the 10 questions.

6. Instructional Procedures:
- Before: The teacher will ask the students, “Who can remind me what it means to make
an inference?”
- The teacher will review the meaning of an inference. She will explain to the students that
making an inference means figuring out something that wasn’t completely explained in
the story. It can also be referred to as using clues to make a good guess.
- The teacher will share her screen in order to go through the Inference Google slides
presentation.
- The first slide lists the student objective: I CAN ask and answer questions about the text
and make inferences from text; refer to picture or text to support responses.
- The teacher will share the essential question: When do readers infer and what is their
inference based on?
- The teacher will move to the next slide called Making Inferences. The teacher will ask
the students if they can make inferences based on the image they see. They will answer
the following questions: Where is she? What is she doing? How does she feel? What
might happen next?
- The following are possible answers to these questions:
- Where is she?
- The girl is in school.
- The girl is in art class.
- What is she doing?
- The girl is creating an art piece.
- The girl is drawing a picture.
- The girl is coloring.
- How does she feel?
- The girl feels happy.
- The girl is glad to be in school.
- The girl loves to draw/color.
- What might happen next?
- The girl might share her artwork with her classmates.
- The girl might hand in her artwork to the teacher.
- The girl might bring her artwork home.
- The teacher will go to the next slide which contains a different image related to the
passage the students are going to read independently. The teacher will explain to the
students they are going to read a story and answer questions on their own. The story is
called Blast Off! Mae Jemison Goes Into Space.
- The teacher will explain to the students they are going to make inferences based on this
image. They will answer the following questions: Where is she? What is she doing? How
did she get there? What is the story about?
- The following are possible answers to these questions:
- Where is she?
- She is in a rocket ship.
- She is in space.
- What is she doing?
- She is floating.
- She is fixing the rocket ship.
- She is working on a space mission.
- How did she get there?
- She got there in a rocket ship.
 - What is the story about?
- An astronaut who goes into space.
- An astronaut’s job.
- Life in outer space.
- The teacher will explain to the students that all of the answers they came up with were
inferences because they figured them out before reading the text.
- Before beginning to read, the teacher will remind the students of the six reading strategies
good readers use.
- The following are the six reading strategies:
- Predict: Try to figure out what might happen next.
- Visualize: Picture the people, places and events being described.
- Connect: Connect what you are reading to other texts and the real world.
- Question: Ask questions about the material you are reading.
- Clarify: Investigate. Identify main points and summarize.
- Evaluate: Judge the story and the actions of the characters.

- During: The teacher will tell the students they are going to read the story and answer the
questions independently in their breakout room.
- The teacher will also tell the students they should make sure to write an “I” next to a
question they answered by making an inference.
- The teacher will emphasize to the students that they should read the story carefully and
stop throughout the text to make sure they understand what they are reading. If they do
not understand a specific part of the passage, they should make sure to reread it.
- The teacher will also remind the students to make sure they take their time and read each
question thoroughly. They should look back in the passage in order to answer each
question. She will also emphasize to the students that they should write in complete
sentences for number 11 and check their writing using the CUPS strategy.
- The teacher will tell the students they will spend 20 minutes in their breakout room. She
will provide them the specific time based on what the current time is.
- The teacher will remind the students that it is important to really focus and do their best
work because they are going to have to do this independently very soon and they will not
be able to receive any help.
- The teacher will drop the Nearpod link and write the code in the chat for the students.
- The teacher will ask the students, “Who can tell me what you are doing in your breakout
room?”
- The following are the answers to the Blast Off! Mae Jemison Goes Into Space reading
passage:
1. B. by listing the interests she had in college
2. C. it was hard for Mae Jemison to be picked by NASA.
3. A. doctor
4. D. how Mae Jemison got ready to go into space
 5. D. because she worked hard in her training course
6. A. that Mae Jemison floated in space
7. C. to tell the story of how Mae Jemison became an astronaut
8. C. NASA makes her feel excited about being a part of the space program
9. Mae Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama.
Mae Jemison went to Africa as a volunteer doctor
Mae Jemison went to the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas
Mae Jemison and the crew went into space
Mae Jemison has become a public speaker, college professor,
researcher, and writer.
10. B. How she enjoys being in outer space
11. Sample paragraph: My name is Mae Jemison. I studied various subjects
in college because I love to learn new things. After going to college, I
decided to be a volunteer doctor in Africa. After returning back to the
United States, I became an astronaut for NASA, which was a great
accomplishment. I was so excited! After five years, I finally had the
opportunity to go on a mission to space. While in space, I studied to see
if tadpoles would still turn into frogs - they did! I had such a great time
while in space and I would definitely go back.

- After: The teacher will ask all of the students to return to the main room. She will thank
the students for working so hard.
- The teacher will ask the students, “Who can summarize the story you just read?”
- The students will play a review game on Nearpod.
- In order to conclude the lesson, the teacher will ask the students to write what an
inference is in the chat. The students will not submit their answer until the teacher tells
them to do so. They will have one minute.

7. Assessment: In order to evaluate the students’ level of understanding, the teacher will review
the students’ answers they submit on the Nearpod activity. The teacher will also look at the
answers the students submit on the Time to Climb game on Nearpod. Lastly, the teacher will
review the answer the students put in the chat regarding what an inference is. Overall, the
teacher will make sure to observe and monitor the students’ work while they are working in
their small groups.

8. Differentiated Instruction: The students will have the option to write their answers in the
chat or share orally with the class during our class discussion. The students will also be groups
heterogeneously.
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