PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Blue Ribbon Readers: The Detective's Notebook Game
An online learning game where students read the notes in a detective's notebook and make inferences and predictions to solve the case.
Other
Critical Reading: Inference and Analysis
This site defines inference and analysis. It explains how analysis works, goals of analysis, levels, bases, and how to analyze text. RL.9-10.1, RL.11-12.1, RI.9-10.1 textual evidence and inferences, RI.11-12.1 textual evidence and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to make the information in your expository essays relevant and your inferences valid.
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Musical Inferences [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, learners 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...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Test Skill Builders for Reading: Making Judgments [Pdf]
Standardized test practice for students in grades 5 and 6. Students read a practice passage and answer questions that require them to make judgments about such things as fact or opinion and the author's purpose. Answers to the practice...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Inference Innovations [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and use a graphic organizer to make inferences. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game to cover words on a game board by making inferences. Materials are included.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Incredible Inferences [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students play a game by covering places on a board while making inferences. Materials are included.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography
This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Mystery Powder Investigation
During this lesson plan, young scholars will work individually to identify a mystery powder. Students will have the opportunity to test known powders with different substances and record observations. Young scholars will develop a plan...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Arthur: Games: About Face
Help Arthur to feed his dog by choosing the facial expressions that match the feelings he describes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Word and Picture Clues to Make an Inference
First graders will use text evidence to make inferences about word and word phrase meanings in a text. Word and picture clues will be used to help students form inferences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strongly Supported Inferences Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to identify something that is "strongly supported." On questions that ask you to find the choice that is most strongly supported by a stimulus, the answer does not have to be...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strongly Supported Inferences Learn More
How do we recognize what is "strongly supported?" Some questions on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT ask what additional information is supported by a stimulus. These are similar to questions that ask you to identify the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Inferences About Information Quick Guide
Some questions in the Reading Comprehension section will ask you to make an inference about information in the passage. The answer may not be explicitly stated in the passage, but it will be supported by the content of the passage. In...
Mr. Nussbaum
Mr. Nussbaum: Galaxies Reading Comprehension
This learning module includes a nonfiction reading passage about galaxies including the Milky Way followed by a multiple choice self-assessment which gives students immediate feedback.
Mr. Nussbaum
Mr. Nussbaum: French and Indian War Comprehension
This learning module includes a nonfiction reading passage about the French and Indian War followed by a multiple choice self-assessment which gives students immediate feedback.
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.
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
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Use Details and Examples
A short explanation of how to use explicit details in an informational text to make inferences. Click on Model at the bottom right to see a model with examples.