New horizons Part 1: Reflections on MANSW conference 2018
Missed hearing Dan Meyer speak at MANSW? Here is the first of three reflection blogs on the MANSW annual conference that took place on 14th to 16th September.
Reading for inference – the beginnings
Reading for inference, inferential thinking, begins well before children are required to draw meaning from written and visual texts at school. This type of thinking, making inferences about our world, is used all the time by everyone. We learn to make considered – and often not quite so considered – judgements and assumptions about people,…