The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

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

Read four short texts and make inferences in order to answer six multiple-choice questions.

An online learning game where students read the notes in a detective's notebook and make inferences and predictions to solve the case.