Mastering your inferencing skills is a great place to start because making inferences is an integral part of understanding what you're reading. Inferences, or evidence-based conclusions about a text, help to unlock meaning and clarify what's happening in a passage. Always using evidence to suppor...
Writing lessons presented a slightly different picture, with students in the higher-achieving classrooms not only given more opportunities for extended writing and DLO creation work but also more constrained worksheet tasks. Students in the lower-achieving classrooms were involved more often in game-base...
That, and the fact that we make these inferences swiftly and below consciousness, can make it tempting to categorize continuous utterances as cases of OIC. Sperber and Wilson (1987, p. 740) give an example of continuous utterances when they ask us to imagine a botanical garden where the ...