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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Inference Organizer [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will use a graphic organizer to help them make inferences. Students will list the literal text evidence and make an educated guess based on the text evidence.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Explain an Inference [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tool can be used to help students articulate their answers about fiction pieces. Students will quote the text, provide an inference, and give a justification.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Infer About a Story or an Event [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will use this graphic organizer to help them make an inference about a story or an event. Students will list the literal text evidence and then make an inference about the text evidence.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: 6th Grade Use Text Evidence

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to use text evidence to draw inferences; click the Model button on bottom right.
Handout
Rice University

Rice University: Writing Research Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents information about the necessary parts of a scientific research report. It also contains a sample abstract and introduction.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Inferences Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making inferences. Worksheets are provided to reinforce the skill of making inferences. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will examine the ways in which a magazine cover's headlines and graphics express the main ideas of its articles. They will then use an interactive tool to create covers that summarize chapters of informational...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Stand Tall: Using Evidence to Support Your Answers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This learning module has a series of screencast videos and practice exercises designed to teach students how to support their answers with details from the text.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: "The Last Leaf": Making Inferences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This learning module has a series of screencast videos and practice exercises designed to teach students how to make inferences based on explicit and implicit information found within a text.
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explicitly teach a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Accountable Talk

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, and prepare for writing about texts.
Activity
McGraw Hill

Read: Does Technology Make Us Lazy?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compare these two passages for some interesting ideas about how technology affects our lives. The questions that follow ask you to identify the main idea from either direct statement or inference.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question the Author (Qt A)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Question the Author (QtA) is a comprehension strategy that requires students to pose queries while reading the text in order to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge (Beck et al., 1997).
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Engaging all students in a themed study or unit is a challenge that teachers can resolve by using materials that match students' independent or instructional reading levels (Robb 1994, 2000). When students face textbooks that are above...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure: Reading Test 4

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this text structure reading test, students read passages and select the pattern of organization used; they sometimes have to explain their reasons using evidence from the text.
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Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Context Clues

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this game, students use context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words.
Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structures

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
A complete reading activity covering text structure with several interactive practice questions. Press the "play" button to access the material.
PPT
Other

Author Stream: Make an Inference

For Students 7th Standards
A slideshow with twelve slides giving information, examples, and practice exercises on making inferences
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Quia

Quia: Reading for Facts

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This interactive quiz assesses students' reading comprehension skills of informational text passages. Students will read 30 short passages and answer question about a detail for each.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Make Inferences and Draw Conclusions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Paraphrase / Retell

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to paraphrase a text by using a list of guiding questions.