Reading

CURRICULUM FOCUS

We are learning to infer motive.

VOCABULARY

Inferring: using text clues and prior knowledge to find the hidden information in a text.

Motive: an idea, desire, or impulse that causes a person to act in a particular way, or do a particular thing.

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

Choose your favourite character from a book you’re reading. Write a paragraph identifying their actions throughout the text, and inferring their motives for said behaviour.