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

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.

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.

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...

Determine if a quadratic or exponential model fits a data set better, then use the model to make a prediction. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.