Here's a bright inference worksheet that can enlighten the study of any text. Readers fill in a thought bubble with what they know about a story, then map on a scroll clues they found in the text, and record their insights on the inference lightbulb.

Concepts

inferences, reading comprehension strategies

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use a pasage from the text under study to model how to use the worksheet

Classroom Considerations

• The 17th in a series of 22 inference worksheets
• A link to a simplified version of the worksheet that may be used to model the process is provided below

Pros

• The activity encourages readers to begin with what they know and then to carefully examine context clues to analyze the inferences

Cons

• No models are included