Ages: 6-12
Grades: 1-7

The cornerstone of comprehension, making inferences, becomes tangible for students with language-learning disorders. Students examine what they hear for a variety of clues and make meaningful connections to what they know.

Students learn to reason and make logical inferences with this progression in activities:

1. answer where and when questions with picture supports
2. answer what, why, and how questions with picture supports
3. make inferences about feelings using picture supports
4. make predictions with picture supports
5. answer wh- and how questions about what is read
6. understand nonverbal language using picture supports
7. make inferences from the speaker's volume and speaking style
8. make inferences from what is heard

Written in the proven format of the Spotlight series, these activities help students develop listening skills with:

• picture-supported lessons that shift to listening-only activities
• carefully controlled vocabulary
• a wide variety of curricular content as well as daily life experiences
• minimal demands for writing
• pretest/posttest

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2006