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.

In this lesson plan, students will learn that inference is also present in music. They will examine music from different soundtracks to see how music is used to set the stage for events. They will describe how music gets louder, softer,...

In this lesson the teacher uses modeling and questioning strategies to walk students through making inferences in various texts and then using those inferences to draw conclusions.

A six-part learning module with images and websites that students can use to build inferencing skills.

An eleven-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites designed to build inferencing skills.

A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts to use while learning to make inferences.

A lesson plan in which learners explore plants from three different ecosystems and make inferences about plant structures and their environments. Includes discussion questions, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.

Students will understand the term "inference," practice making inferences using short paragraphs, and organize ideas using a graphic organizer in this SMART whiteboard activity.

Students will learn the difference between making a prediction and an inference as they engage in class discussions about both reading skills, play a game, look at art, and listen to songs.

Choose from three levels of difficulty and play a game of battleship against the computer. When hitting the opponent's ship, the player must first answer a multiple choice inference question.

A graphic organizer designed to help students connect information from the text with personal experience to make an inference.

The Gardener by Sarah Stewart won the Caldecott Honor in 1998. It centres around a set of letters about a young girl who moved from the countryside to the city. In the lessons in this teaching guide, young scholars must make inferences...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to recognize the difference between implicit information and drawing conclusions. Students also learn to draw conclusions in...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson plan designed to teach young scholars to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The lesson plan is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are guided through a lesson to understand the difference between explicit information and conclusions drawn from a text. With free login, users have access to passages used in this lesson.

This lesson plan requires students to make an inference (hypothesis) about two animals based on the tracks they leave behind. Students are asked to write a story explaining their inference.

This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains the story on MP3, inferences, vocabulary activities, comprehension questions, distinguishing between thoughts and instincts, Activote, and web extensions.

A study of The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth will have students critically examining the text as they exercise their higher order thinking skills. This excellent teacher's giide comes with blackline masters and an assessment rubric.

"Community Meeting" is a one page, fictional reading passage about the needs of a community and how they need to work together to meet those needs. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...

A careful analysis of political cartoons can provide a glimpse into key moments of U.S. political history. In this activity, learners will closely examine political cartoons about the Stamp Act; make inferences about the political,...

Students participate in a bird count to determine the number of birds sighted in four different sites. Students draw inferences from recorded data on a bar graph in regard to the number of species in the area and relative population size.

Students explore the concept of density by investigating how several solids and liquids interact. Through hands-on activities and a teacher demonstration, they develop a greater understanding of density by using their observational...

"A Better Community" is a one page, fictional reading passage that focuses on recycling. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes skills such as sequencing,...