Inferring lessons

Looking for activities to teach making inferences? Come read about these five, fun making inferences mini-lessons you can use in your elementary classroom today! Use these making inference lessons with any read aloud or text and perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade! Make sure you're teaching the skill of making inferences with these fun and engaging ideas! Making inferences can be a tough strategy to teach, but your students will love these making inferences activities!

Hands-On Inference lesson where students become inference detectives to solve the Case of the Missing Cape! Engaging and SO MUCH FUN for K-1!

In today's post, I'll share ideas for teaching inferring through a gradual release of responsibility. Make sure to read all the way through the post, because there are several different freebies you can download and use right away!

This making inference activity and lesson plan will help all of your readers succeed at making inferences and inferring as they independently read in your upper elementary and middle school classrooms. Making inference mentor text included.

Last year, I taught how to make inferences for quite some time. With such an emphasis on close reading, I wanted my students to read between the lines, to dig deeper, and to find out the answer to the question, “what is the author really trying to say?!” I spent a lot of time […]

If your students are any thing like mine, they struggle with making inferences. It is a tricky skill! ...and it takes a lot of practice. I made something super fun for my second graders, and they didn't even realize how hard they were working on making inferences. In summary, students use the items in the garbage cans to infer who the garbage can belonged to. My teammates and I (6 of us) each filled a little Dollar Tree garbage can with trash that would represent us. We chose items that…

Teaching students the difference between literal and inferential thinking is one of my must-do lessons of every single school year

Use the FREE lesson and activities and these tips on teaching making inferences to help readers master this reading comprehension skill.

This is a fun lesson to engage your kids in making inferences and drawing conclusions. I love to show my kids how what they learn in class relates to the world around them. I start off teaching inferring with lessons about how they already infer all the time with videos, movies, people, etc. Then, we break down how we use background knowledge and evidence to create a strong inference.This activity can be used as a longer whole group activity, stretched out as an engaging mini lesson over a…

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