Have your learners mastered making inferences? Have pupils work their inferring muscles by completing this worksheet, which includes four passages to read and analyze. Learners answer two to three questions about each passage, providing textual evidence for each inference made.

Concepts

making inferences, inferences, reading comprehension, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign this exercise for homework or as a starter
• Break the work up by completing the first section as a class, assigning the second as partner work, and sending the worksheet home for kids to finish
• Model how to find evidence of an inference to more fully support learners

Classroom Considerations

• Note that the answer key is a webpage, but can still be printed as a hard copy
• The answers on the key are underneath each question
• This resource is one in a series of inference worksheets

Pros

• Comes with an answer key that details both the suggested inferences and textual evidence for the inferences
• Learners are asked not only to make inferences, but to support their thought processes with textual evidence

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RL.6.1 RL.7.1 RL.8.1