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EngageNY

Analyzing Author’s Point of View: Chapter 5 of World without Fish

For Teachers 6th Standards
That's an interesting perspective. Scholars read chapter five of World without Fish and use an Author’s Point of View graphic organizer to determine the author's perspective. In triads, they highlight words that support the author's...
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Teacher's Corner

Is There a Wocket in my Pocket?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Accompany Dr. Seuss' Is There a Wocket in my Pocket? with this graphic organizer. Young readers make inferences about why the main character has certain feelings towards the creatures found in the story. 
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Curated OER

Inference Activity

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this inference learning exercise, students look at pictures and read sentences, writing yes or no on a line to indicate whether the statement "sounds right."
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Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Common Core Reading Standards: Understanding Argument

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What does your class know about logical fallacies? They can find out quite a bit and practice identifying logical fallacies if you follow the steps and use the resources provided here! After reviewing ethos, pathos, and logos, ask small...
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Interactive
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Maniac Magee

For Students 4th - 6th
A 10-question interactive online quiz checks comprehension of Jerry Spinelli's lively novel. Several inference-based questions demand more than just fact recollection. Unlimited chances to try missed questions again encourage rereading....
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EngageNY

Analyzing Images and Language: Inferring about the Natural Disaster in Eight Days

For Teachers 5th Standards
Pictures often reveal different meanings. Scholars analyze the images in Eight Days and discuss how they add meaning to the text. Readers answers questions about how specific colors are used to create different emotions. Learners then...
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EngageNY

Analyzing Point of View: Inferring about the Natural Disaster in Eight Days

For Teachers 5th Standards
Who is telling the story? Readers take a look at the text Eight Days to determine if the story is told in first or third person. They then discuss in groups and complete a shared writing activity to describe how the narrator's point of...
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EngageNY

Analyzing Point of View: Inferring about the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on People Living in New Orlean

For Teachers 5th Standards
What, where, how? Readers hone their analysis skills as they determine the narrator's point of view in Eight Days. They complete a literary analysis chart and essay to describe what and where events take place. Individuals then discuss...
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Great Books Foundation

On the Origin of Species

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How did Charles Darwin support his controversial theory of evolution with evidence? Use an excerpt from his 1859 work On the Origin of Species to reinforce the importance of making inferences within an informational text, and to discuss...
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Curated OER

Maus: After Reading Strategy Instructional Routine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Class members create literary mandalas for two characters from Maus, Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about his father’s experiences with the Holocaust. After finding quotes that reveal three good traits and three bad traits of each...
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EngageNY

Analyzing Character: Louie Zamperini

For Teachers 8th Standards
Let's talk! Scholars create discussion appointments using map locations. After completing their appointment books, readers look closely at a few Unbroken pages. They use sentence strips to record details from their readings that help...
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Curated OER

Reading Between the Lines: Making Inferences About Idioms

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars discover idioms. In this inferencing lesson, students identify idioms from passages and infer meanings of unknown idioms using prior knowledge and experience.  Young scholars write sentences using newly learned idioms. 
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Curated OER

Get the Joke!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore humor through word context and inference used in everyday language.
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Curated OER

Colors, Characters, & Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate inferences. They define inference, view a Powerpoint presentation, answer questions about a picture book, and identify clues throughout the story as examples of inferences.
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Curated OER

Colors, Characters, & Clues: White Socks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the process of making inferences. They define inference, view a Powerpoint presentation, and as a whole group locate clues in the pictures of a short story, locating written clues to reinforce their conclusions.
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Curated OER

The Fear Place

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the strategy turn and talk to discuss inferences they have while reading the book The Fear Place. In this inferences lesson plan, students answer discussion questions and read independently as well.
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Curated OER

An Indecent Chicken?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this inference worksheet, students read a passage and write a conclusion about what they read and match vocabulary words with definitions. Students complete 11 problems.
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Curated OER

Deep or Shallow

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice answering questions to aid in creating meaning when reading. Through guided practice, they read a passage from a chapter book and answer in-text and inference questions. Independently, they read another chapter...
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Curated OER

Sunny or Shady?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice answering questions to aid in creating meaning when reading. Through guided practice, they read a passage from the chapter book "Tuck Everlasting" and answer in-text and inference questions. Independently, they read...
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Curated OER

Predict, Draw Conclusions

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners discuss times they predict what will happen next. They compare this to using the information given in a piece of literature to predict what will happen next in the story. Students listen as the teacher reads an excerpt from The...
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Curated OER

Social Studies Strategies - Pick a Word

For Students 5th - 7th
In this inference skills worksheet, students read a short passage, then pick two words that describe the passage. Next they explain why they chose that word. Students choose another word related to the passage and write it on a 3x5 note...
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Curated OER

Winner's Never Quit: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Winner's Never Quit and complete comprehension skills such as predicting, summarizing, making inferences, and author's purpose. Students complete 5 activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Click Clack Moo Cows That Type: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension skills learning exercise, students read the book Click Clack Moo Cows That Type and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including genre, cause and effect, inferring, and predicting.
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Curated OER

Annie's Gifts: comprehension skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Annie's Gifts and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including problem/solution, setting, making predictions, making inferences, and drawing...

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