Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Inferences Worksheets
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.
Other
Sas: Exploring Ways Authors Use Text Structures to Convey Meaning
In this lesson, students will explore ways authors use text structures to convey meaning through cause and effect, sequencing, comparison, and more.
International Literacy Association
Ila: Unlocking the Power of Informational Text With Five Creative Ideas
Five easy ways to help unlock the power of informational text for all students.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Stand Tall: Using Evidence to Support Your Answers
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.
CPALMS
Cpalms: "The Last Leaf": Making Inferences
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.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Accountable Talk
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.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Selective Highlighting
Selective Highlighting/Underlining is used to help students organize what they have read by selecting what is important. This strategy teaches students to highlight/underline ONLY the key words, phrases, vocabulary, and ideas that are...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure: Reading Test 4
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.
Quia
Quia: Rags to Riches: Context Clues
In this game, students use context clues in the passage to determine the meaning of vocabulary words.
Other
Speech Language Resources: Inference and Reading: A Guide for School Age Students
An explanation of inferences and how to make them. Examples and links to additional learning exercises are included.
Other
Hickman Community Charter District: Informative Writing
Sample topics in informative writing for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. CSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Make Inferences and Draw Conclusions
Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.
Quia
Quia: Making Inferences, Summaries, and Conclusions
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference, summary, or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
Quia
Quia: Inferences Rags to Riches
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference in this Rags to Riches style game.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Underlining for Comprehension
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a test taking strategy. Students will engage in underlining as they preview directions and texts. Students can continue with this strategy as they read.
TES Global
Blendspace: Inference
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts to use while learning to make inferences.
Other
Prezi: Explicit v. Implicit Meaning
Slideshow investigates how to determine what the text is saying v. what it means.
Other
Prezi: 7th Grade Ela Making Inferences
Slideshow explores how to read between the line while offering examples for practicing.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Prediction and Inference: A Reading Strategy
This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading Comprehension: Context Clues and Inferences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension flipchart uses Activote and a puzzle to review context clues and inferences. It is intended to review for the FCAT or other state assessment exams.
Other
Laflemm.com: Reading Resources: Inference
This page has reading tips and exercises that explain inferences. There is an answer key for students to check their work. RL.9-10.1, RL.11-12.1, RI.9-10.1 & RL.11-12.1 textual evidence and inferences