Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Kindergarten: Three Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Three lessons designed to introduce young learners and beginning readers to the concept of drawing conclusions based on actions performed in a charades game, on verbal cues given in a guessing game, and...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: One Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are guided through a lesson to understand the difference between explicit information and conclusions drawn from a text. With free login, users have access to passages used in this lesson.
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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...
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Inferences and Drawing Conclusion

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Make Inferences and Draw Conclusions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.
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Quia

Quia: 5th Grade Drawing Conclusions

For Students 5th Standards
Read a short text and then choose an appropriate inference or conclusion in this five-question quiz.
eBook
Other

Cuesta College: Reading Comprehension Guide: Inferences and Conclusions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Drawing Conclusions

For Students 4th Standards
Read a literary text paragraph and then answer questions that require the reader to draw conclusions from the text in this nine-question quiz.
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Quia

Quia: Reading Detective Drawing Conclusions 7

For Students 7th Standards
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this four question quiz.
eBook
Other

Peoples Education: Make Inferences in Science [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 4th Standards
This online textbook selection focuses on how scientists make inferences from evidence. Students are given a reading passage about underwater exploration and are asked to make inferences based on the text. The passage is followed by...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. The two texts are side-by-side to better understand them.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What the Heck Is That? Inferring the Purpose of an Object

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this instructional activity, 5th graders use their prior knowledge and inference skills to determine uses of unfamiliar objects. They participate in group discussions and analyze the key information they have in order to reach...
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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 Word From Context [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will find a reference poster that will help students inference. Students will find step-by-step directions to help them infer meanings of new words.
PPT
Other

Author Stream: Make an Inference

For Students 7th Standards
A slideshow with twelve slides giving information, examples, and practice exercises on making inferences
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What Is an Inference?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines what an inference is and helps students understand the concept using Activote to review and practice.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Making Inferences, Summaries, and Conclusions

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference, summary, or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] By using different organizational patterns as guides, learn how to make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions while distinguishing factual claims.
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University of California

University of California at Berkeley: Understanding Science: Mystery Boxes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interesting instructional activity where students collaborate to create a visual image of what the inside of a sealed box looks like. The box has a marble or other type of sphere inside it, as well as partitions and/or ramps. Students...