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Using Questioning and Strategy Instruction to Support Upper Elementary Students with Marianne Rice, Kay Wijekumar, and Kacee Lambright

“Making inferences is essential to comprehending text. Teachers can ask inferential questions, model their thinking, and teach specific strategies to support upper elementary students in making inferences while reading.”

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Promoting Inference Generation: Using Questioning and Strategy Instruction to Support Upper Elementary Students

Marianne Rice, Kay Wijekumar, Kacee Lambright, and Ashley Stack

The Reading Teacher, July 2024

https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/trtr.2353

Check out our other episode with Marianne and Kacee!

EP.69-Text Structure and Inference Skills: The Latest Instructional Research!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-69-text-structure-and-inference-skills-the/id1614519794?i=1000651502855

“What’s the Main Idea?”: Using Text Structure to Build Comprehension

https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/trtr.2016

“Inference skills for reading: A meta-analysis of instructional practices.”

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-63383-001

Kay Wijekumar

Houston Endowed Chair (Teaching, Learning and Culture)

Texas A&M University

Email: k_wijekumar@tamu.edu

Marianne Rice is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She was an elementary teacher and reading specialist for over 10 years before earning her PhD at Texas A&M University.
Email:mrice44@utk.edu

Kacee Lambright:

Research Specialist III

TEACHING, LEARNING & CULTURE

Texas A&M University

Email: kacee331@tamu.edu

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