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.

A good warm-up/introduction activity for a unit on inferences. This is a simple exercise to help teachers assess prior knowledge.

A lesson plan in which students read a text and use a graphic organizer to make inferences. Materials are included.

This printable activity helps students recognize the difference between an implication and an inference. Students are presented with quotes from the text and they practice with each of the ten types of inference: location, agent, time,...

An article describing the importance of making inferences while reading a story.

A guide explaining the importance of Independent Reading and providing several strategies students can use to increase comprehension while reading independently. Strategies include Reader's Response Journals, Quick Conferences,...

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...

Tons of online resources for reading and language skills compiled nicely into a student-friendly SMART Notebook file.

This lesson plan examines and makes inferences into the change and development in characters. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

A six-part learning module with images and websites that students can use to build inferencing skills.

A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos with information and examples of how to make inferences.

Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...

This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...

Fact and opinion practice exercises, answer sheets, and explanation summaries are included on this tutorial site. Worksheets are tiered in levels of difficulty.

"Lincoln's Choice" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about young Abraham Lincoln saving a friend from drowning. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...

Students will learn the difference between making a prediction and an inference as they engage in class discussions about both reading skills, play a game, look at art, and listen to songs.

This interactive assessment features 6 multiple-choice over terms having to do with making inferences and their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent...

In this interactive game, students match terms having to do with making inferences to their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent traits.

This set of interactive flashcards focuses on terms having to do with making inferences and their definitions. These terms include the following: inference, context clue, judgment, implied, prior knowledge, and apparent traits.

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.

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

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

Read a poem titled "Woodman, Spare That Tree" by George Pope Morris, and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.

Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...