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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Illinois Pioneers and Prairies [Pdf]
"Illinois Pioneers and Prairies" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about life in the prairies of Illinois for the early settlers including their hard work, setting up governments, building schools, and making laws. It is...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Farmers [Pdf]
"Prairie Farmers" is a one page, historical fiction, journal describing life for farmers in the prairie throughout the year. It shows the difficulties including bad weather and fires. It requires students to closely read the journal and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes
In this lesson, you will make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes across various genres by finding supporting evidence within each of the texts. This task will require you to use your analytical reading skills, and it...
Utah Education Network
Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 05: Olympics
Stuents will participate in the shared reading of Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy. After the reading, 2nd graders will fill out an Olympic events recording sheet.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching the Scientific Method
Life is one project after another, no matter what career field one chooses. The responsibility of planning a project is a valuable lesson for students that applies to most career fields. This method requires students to answer a question...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Miss Nelson Is Back
First graders tell what is happening in the story, but use words and phrases from the story to tell how they know.
McGraw Hill
Read: Does Technology Make Us Lazy?
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Lookout Mountain Tunnel
Reproducible activity about drawing conclusions that provides a reading passage and comprehension questions. Also includes a link to a key at the bottom of the page.
Other
Author Stream: Make an Inference
A slideshow with twelve slides giving information, examples, and practice exercises on making inferences
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: 5th Grade Drawing Conclusions
Read a short text and then choose an appropriate inference or conclusion in this five-question quiz.
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.
Other
Cuesta College: Reading Comprehension Guide: Inferences and Conclusions
Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.
Quia
Quia: Inferences and Drawing Conclusion
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Three Little Javelinas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to be used while reading the book The Three Little Javelinas. It includes a phonics review, vocabulary and drawing conclusions lessons, compare/contrast, and websites that would...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Drawing Conclusions
Read a literary text paragraph and then answer questions that require the reader to draw conclusions from the text in this nine-question quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to accompany Scott Foresman's Grade 3 story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall. It teaches drawing conclusions and gives websites to practice this reading...
Other
Prezi: Explicit vs. Implicit
Slideshow explains the difference between explicit and implicit meaning in texts and visuals. Includes good examples and practice questions.
Sam Houston State University
Texas Center for Academic Excellence: Drawing Conclusions Post Test
Read a text selection, and then answer seven multiple-choice quiz questions. Includes link to answers for checking.