What Inference Can You Make?

What Inference Can You Make?

Inference is one of the common core standards that I know is hard to incorporate in a day to day classroom. I find that book covers open a door to inference and also a door into getting kids to read.


Here is a before and after Inference worksheet for the book Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt. The before one ask students to draw a conclusion just by looking at the cover of the book. The after worksheet asks students to draw a conclusion after reading the book.

Common Core - RL.2.7- Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Link to the Book:http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Lila_Treasure

Link to the Inference Worksheets: Freebie

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A Blazing Hot Sale

A Blazing Hot Sale

Since it is blazing hot outside I thought I would lower my prices in my teacher stores and throw a sale too.  I have some new items including a few new Freebies.  


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Sale start July 5th and will end on July 8th.

I am preparing to release my 2nd Children's book "Lil'a Finds her Prince" later this month, so keep on eye out for the announcement.  I will also have some teacher resources to go along with the story. 

How Does Your Garden Grow

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Lil'a like most kids loves taking care of her mother's flowers, especially when she can pick them and give them to her as a gift.  In the story Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt, Lil'a was asked to water her mother's flowers, as a result Lil'a picked some to give to her mother.

As I wrote this story about Lil'a teacher resources just started popping in my head.  Listed below are some resources I made to go with this story.

• How Does Your Garden Grow - TPT or Teacher Notebook
• Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt Inference - TPT or Teacher Notebook ~ Freebie
• Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt Book Study - TPT or Teacher Notebook ~ Freebie
• How Does Your Garden Grow - SMART Board Activity - TPT or Teacher Notebook
• Math Skill Check with Little E - TPT or Teacher Notebook
• Gumball Math 1 - TPT or Teacher Notebook

As I am finishing book #2 even more resources are emerging from the teacher part of my brain.  I will keep you posted when they come available. 

Here is a Sneak Peak to a teacher resource for book #2.

• Jelly Bean Math - Probability/Fractions - TPT or Teacher Notebook

Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt - post

Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt

Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt

My kids give me the greatest joy in life, so I wanted to write a series of children's books with characters based off of my them.  This past year I learned a lot about different ways to get books published.  After I finished by research I decided to do self-publishing via Lulu.  I now had a story line and a place to publish my book but no illustrations.  Being a tech savvy person I decided to teach myself how to draw using my computer.  I try to draw in several tools such as Google Draw and SMART Notebook tools to draw the different objects I wanted in my book.

Every object/picture in my book is made by layering shapes.  I had to learn how to layer the shapes, lock the shapes, and add color or texture to each shape.  Lil'a and the Treasure Hunt is my 1st attempt in writing and illustrating my 1st children's book.  From going through this process in creating this book spawned some teacher resources that relates to the story.

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Sneak Peek to book #2