Inferencing Mini-lesson with Clickers and Highlighting

I saw another highly engaging lesson today. Mrs. Prides's class was gathered on the carpet and she was reading a passage together titled “Holding it Together.” She was highlighting the helpful phrases as students used the clues to make inferences about what object was. The passage was displayed on elmo. Mrs. Pride did a think aloud with the first 2 stanzas and modeled how she wanted them to use this skill.  

Then she passed out a copy of the poem and a highlighter.  The students partnered up and had to read the rest of the passage and then highlight on their copy the clues they were getting.  As a team, once they figured out how what the object was, they had to text it in on the clicker.