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Reading Comprehension: Voice of Nature
Understanding a text can be a very interesting task. Fourth graders read a passage describing the origin of an Aboriginal myth. They answer 11 comprehension questions that require them to pull key details, use context, and think...
Reading Worksheets
Inferences Worksheet 6
Have your learners mastered making inferences? Have pupils work their inferring muscles by completing this worksheet, which includes four passages to read and analyze. Learners answer two to three questions about each passage, providing...
Reading Worksheets
Inferences Worksheet 2
You might infer that is worksheet is all about making inferences. And you'd be correct! Invite your learners to read four short passages. After reading each passage, pupils make inferences and support their inferences with textual evidence.
Reading Worksheets
Inferences Worksheet 8
Lead your class toward mastery of making inferences with a straightforward instructional activity. Pupils read four short passages and make inferences based on the questions asked about each passage. They explain their reasoning for each...
Reading Worksheets
Inferences Worksheet 7
Hone your learners' inference-making skills with this exercise. The worksheet includes four passages that learners read and answer questions about. Pupils must note down their inferences along with textual evidence that support their...
E Reading Worksheets
Comprehension and Inference Question Creator
Encourage learners to ask questions about what they read with a instructional activity about comprehension and inference questions. The resource provides directions and examples that guide kids through crafting their own questions.
Have Fun Teaching
Making Inferences (1)
Provide readers with an opportunity to practice drawing inferences by giving them this worksheet. Kids identify the text and author, record a sentence they believe infers rather than directly says, and then write the deeper meaning the...
Reading Worksheets
Inferences Worksheet 10
After reading some of your learners' work and analyzing their literary analyses, you might infer that they need some practice with making inferences! Assign this exercise to support your pupils. They read four passages and make...
K12 Reader
Inference Practice 2: Where Am I?
Practice using context clues with a learning exercise about making inferences. Five prompts encourage kids to interpret where each event takes place based on the details in each passage.
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Making Inferences (11)
Picture this. Kids read a story starter about Josh and his dad, use details in the tale to infer what will happen next, and then draw a picture of this outcome.
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Making Inferences (18)
Here's a bright idea. Model for readers how to use what they know about a story and combine this knowledge with clues from the text to formulate inferences about the story.
K12 Reader
What Do You See? (Inferences)
Making inferences is a skill that goes beyond the comprehension of written text. In this simple exercise, young learners are provided with a photograph and asked to answer a series of inference questions using only on the information...
Have Fun Teaching
Making Inferences Special Night (12)
Young writers will enjoy clowning around with this worksheet that asks them to use clues in Katie's story to infer what is happening. Careful readers won't be tricked. The activity is a real treat.
Curriculum Corner
Academic Reading Vocabulary
From A to Z, learners define, draw, and find examples of specific reading focus skills in an alphabetized reading vocabulary packet. Words include dialogue, theme, text structure, genre, paraphrase, and many more.
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension: Guinness Book of World Records
If your learners are curious about human achievement, superlatives, or esoteric trivia, the Guinness Book of Records is a way to tap into instrinsic motivation and relevance. Here's an informational reading that will grab their attention...
K5 Learning
The Bonfire in the Sea
Ever wonder why fish disappear from the surface of the water in cold weather? Fifth graders read a fun story about the magical fish tribe and their underwater bonfire before answering four comprehension questions.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Comprehension: Text Analysis, More Incredible Inferences
Reinforce inference skills with a learning game! Scholars read scenarios on cards and match them to a written inference on the triangle. The first pupil to match all their inferences wins!
City College of San Francisco
Making Inferences: Reading Between the Lines
Have you ever read part of a story and had to figure out what the rest was about? Practice making inferences with several short passages and multiple choice questions.
Curated OER
Comprehension Strategies: Drawing Inferences
The proof is in the details! A richly detailed plan provides clear examples of how to draw inferences from text and how to provide support drawn directly from the text.
Bethel School District
Observations and Inference
What's the difference between qualitative and quantitative observations? Learners make observations, inferences, and predictions about their environment with a set of questions and activities that are applicable to either language arts...
Ed Worksheets
Read the Story
Want to boost your readers' comprehension skills and strategies? Look to these five pages, each with a short story and questions to answer covering main idea, facts, sequence of events, context clues, conclusions, and making inferences.
Curated OER
Using Random Sampling to Draw Inferences
Emerging statisticians develop the ability to make inferences from sample data while also working on proportional relationships in general. Here, young learners examine samples for bias, and then use random samples to make inferences...
Curated OER
Book Discussions in a Reading Partnership
Do you have a lot of different reading levels in your class? Pair kids up by level and have them choose a book to read independently. They will make predictions, ask questions, make connections, etc. Consider creating a general reading...
Prestwick House
Vocabulary in Context: Wilderness Survival
Do you have what it takes to survive in the wilderness? A high-interest reading passage offers practical advice while incorporating vocabulary practice. Follow-up worksheets focus on skills such as defining words, making inferences, and...