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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Classify and Infer When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

This site contains links to two graphic organizers to guide and assess the understanding of nonfiction text in science and social studies.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Students can use these guiding questions as they complete two graphic organizers about a historical event. Students will then ask guiding questions about the historical event to draw conclusions about the historical event.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Make/explain an Inference [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th

In this learning module, students will find links to five graphic organizers. Students will be able to use the resources to help them make inferences...

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of a Multiple Meaning [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

Learners will analyze a word in several different sentences. Students will determine the meaning of the same word in several different contexts. Learners will also write their own sentences with the same word in several different contexts.

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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

[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...

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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to use pictures and context clues to discover a missing word and to draw conclusions about a story. Students...

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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Short Story

For Teachers K Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan teaching students to make conclusions based on a sentences and short texts. Students use textual cues to explain how the conclusions were reached. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Making Predictions Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

In this learning module, students will learn more about making predictions in reading. Worksheets and a leson are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Inference Organizer [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

Students will use a graphic organizer to help them make inferences. Students will list the literal text evidence and make an educated guess based on the text evidence.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Explain an Inference [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

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.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Infer About a Story or an Event [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th Standards

Students will use this graphic organizer to help them make an inference about a story or an event. Students will list the literal text evidence and then make an inference about the text evidence.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of a Word in Context [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This activity contains two graphic organizers that will help students infer the meaning of words in context. Students can use these graphic organizers as they read nonfiction texts, particularly while reading in the content area.

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Inferences Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

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.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Match

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Terms related to main idea are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: central idea, main idea, conclusion, infer, inferences, interesting detail, subject, summarizing, and supporting detail....

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea and Details 2nd Grade Match

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards

Identifying the main idea is the task for this "Match" game. Students will read a series of details and match the main idea that "matches" the list of supporting details.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Valid Claims

For Students 7th Standards

Practice problems focusing on making valid claims.

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CPALMS

Cpalms: "The Last Leaf": Making Inferences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

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.

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Grammar Tips

Learn the Difference Between "Imply" and "Infer"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This article explains the difference between these commonly confused words.

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McGraw Hill

Read: Does Technology Make Us Lazy?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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.

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Other

Author Stream: Make an Inference

For Students 7th Standards

A slideshow with twelve slides giving information, examples, and practice exercises on making inferences

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Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches Inferences 5th Grade

For Students 5th Standards

Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or in this Rags to Riches style game.

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SMART Technologies

Smart: Making Inferences

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards

Inferencing is finding clues and using background knowledge to determine an explanation from facts in a passage or story. It's "reading between the lines" of a story to understand what the author doesn't state.

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Quia

Quia: 5th Grade Inference Test

For Students 4th - 6th Standards

Read a short text and then make inferences to answer the questions in this five-question quiz.

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TES Global

Blendspace: Inference Lessons

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

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

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