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Organizer
Curated OER

Making Inferences

For Students 4th - 5th
Here is an excellent graphic organizer that learners use to write details and facts in boxes to the left, and inferences about them on the right. A good worksheet for visual learners!
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Taking Notes Using a Graphic Organizer: Inferring About Work and Play in Colonial America

For Teachers 4th Standards
What was life like in colonial America? Follow this lesson and your pupils will find out what people in colonial times did for work and for fun. Ask learners to compare and contrast the two texts and explain what the reading helped them...
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Worksheet
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Making Inferences (7)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Why did Carla shut the window? Why did Benny feed his puppy? Why did the train blow its whistle? Why did Mom's car have a flat tire? Young readers consider cause and effect relationships in order to draw inferences from four situations...
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Worksheet
Reading Worksheets

Inferences Worksheet 1

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Knowing how to make inferences is a very important skill for readers of all ages. Help your pupils master this ability by providing practice. Pupils read four short passages and answer two to three questions about each to practice making...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Taking Notes Using a Graphic Organizer: Inferring About the Importance of Religion in Colonial America

For Teachers 4th Standards
Improve class understanding of colonial times by reading an informational text and filling out the accompanying graphic organizer. Class members work with a partner to read, take notes, make inferences, and synthesize information.The...
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Worksheet
Have Fun Teaching

Making Inferences (1)

For Students 2nd - 5th
Provide readers with an opportunity to practice drawing inferences by giving them this activity. Kids identify the text and author, record a sentence they believe infers rather than directly says, and then write the deeper meaning the...
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Making Inferences (6)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
The story of Petey and Ralphie provides readers with the perfect opportunity to practice using clues in a text to draw inferences. The questions that follow the story direct readers' attention to details that imply rather than directly...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Foreshadowing and Prediction: W.W. Jacob's, "The Monkey's Paw"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
W.W. Jacobs' story "The Monkey's Paw" provides plenty of foreshadowing which readers use to make predictions in this tightly composed, sound instructional plan. Your class reads the story, recording predictions and checking for veracity...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Inferring about Character: Close Reading of The Lightning Thief (Chapter 3)

For Teachers 6th Standards
Stick it to them! Scholars work to write the gist of sections of text on sticky notes and place them in chapter three of The Lightning Thief. They then share what they wrote with classmates in their triad. The group reads selections of...
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Recognizing Change (Observation vs. Inference)

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
What is the difference between making inferences and making observations? Young climatologists refer to a PowerPoint to make observations on each slide. They record their observations in a provided worksheet before drawing a...
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Worksheet
Bethel School District

Observations and Inference

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
What's the difference between qualitative and quantitative observations? Learners make observations, inferences, and predictions about their environment with a set of questions and activities that are applicable to either language arts...
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Lesson Plan
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Using Random Sampling to Draw Inferences

For Teachers 7th Standards
Emerging statisticians develop the ability to make inferences from sample data while also working on proportional relationships in general. Here, young learners examine samples for bias, and then use random samples to make inferences...
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Worksheet
City College of San Francisco

Making Inferences: Reading Between the Lines

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Have you ever read part of a story and had to figure out what the rest was about? Practice making inferences with several short passages and multiple choice questions.
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Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Managing Influences and Making Decisions

For Teachers 8th
Teenagers could use a little help with their decision-making process. Guide them through the steps of mature choices, outside influences, and expected consequences with a lesson about making decisions.
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Activity
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On Target: Strategies to Help Readers Make Meaning through Inferences

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Here's a resource that explicitly teaches, models, and provides readers with opportunities to practice the process of drawing inferences from text. Packed with strategies elementary, middle, and high school teachers can use, the resource...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Making Inferences: What Motivated Philo Farnsworth?

For Teachers 5th Standards
Turn on the tube. Learners take a look at pages 10-13 of The Boy Who Invented TV. They work in groups and complete a first read to determine the gist of the section. They then reread the pages to  make and revise previous inferences and...
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PPT
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Inferences

For Teachers 3rd
Inferences are the focus of this short, but effective resource. Students see that when all of the facts are missing in a piece of writing, one has to make an inference - a guess based on what is known. Students practice by considering...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Regolith

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
You may not be able to take a field trip to the moon, but that doesn't mean your class can't study moon rocks. Using graham crackers as the moon's bedrock and powdered donuts as micrometeorites, young scientists simulate the creation of...
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Curated OER

Build Mastery: Making Inferences

For Teachers K - 3rd
Do your youngsters realize that they are constantly making inferences? Expose this inner process by bringing out the book they will be reading. Ask scholars what they think the plan is, and explain that their answers are the product of...
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Curated OER

Making Inferences - An Introduction

For Teachers 7th
Help your learners identify the inferences they make every day with this SMART board lesson. With a comic strip in the first presentation slide, they make inferences about the situation. A discussion addresses what type of prior...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Holes: Setting and Inferences

For Students 4th - 5th
Learners read the book Holes, and draw a picture of the setting and answer questions about inferences regarding the book. They answer two questions and draw one setting.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ch-Ch-Ching Cafe: Play Restaurant Make Change

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make change by participating in a role-play restaurant activity. In this making change lesson, 4th graders use their math skills to compare prices and compute bills in a role play restaurant activity.
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

How Franklin Found Out Things

For Students 4th Standards
Franklin learns about the world by making observations, and so do we! A short reading assignment prompts fourth graders to answer comprehension questions about a curious boy and what he notices.
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EngageNY

Inferring: Who was John Allen?

For Teachers 4th Standards
Help your learners work with difficult or archaic words. A continuation of lesson two of this module, the plan here focuses on deciphering the Inventory of John Allen, in particular the unfamiliar words that make up much of the list. Add...

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