Teaching Tips: Inference
These websites are about the importance of inference while reading and how to teach students inference skills. There are activity ideas, lesson plans, and graphic organizers. Some lesson plans are about using inference during the scientific process. There are links to eThemes on inference for elementary school students and inference for middle school students.
Grades
- 1,
- 2,
- 3,
- 4,
- 5,
- 6,
- 7,
- 8,
- 9,
- 10,
- 11,
- 12
Links
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Teaching the Skill of Inference Presentation
This presentation provides activities for teaching the skill of inference to students.
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Inference Worksheets
Choose from among four different activities for practicing making inferences: Making Inferences Worksheet, Inference Worksheet - You Make the Call, Predict and Infer Plant Activity Worksheet, and Predict and Infer Graphic Organizer. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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BrainPOP Jr.: Make Inferences: Lesson Ideas
Scroll down to the middle of the page for ideas for teaching inference to students.
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Educational Leadership: Teaching Inference
Use these four questions to help students think through the thought process involved with drawing inferences.
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Teaching Inference
This resources on teaching inference to your students includes a definition, an example, tips for teaching using an illustration, some example questions, and possible reasons why students have difficulty with inference.
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Teaching Inference
This resources on teaching inference to your students includes a definition, an example, tips for teaching using an illustration, some example questions, and possible reasons why students have difficulty with inference.
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Teaching Students to Make Inference
Gain some tips on how to teach students to make inferences by introducing the concept; using graphic organizers, using picture books, and learning from real life practice. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Inference Games and Activities
Here are some ideas for teaching inference using games and activities, such as comics, inference vs. facts, and guess the definition. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Critical Thinking Strategies: Instructional Techniques
Use these two lessons to teach the concept of inference to your students. In lesson one students will learn how to make inferences using a variety of newspaper cartoons. In lesson two, students will learn about drawing inferences using a picture book.
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Inferential Reading Strategy
Learn about inferential reading strategies and the steps involved.
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English Companion
Here are several strategies using graphic organizers.
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Making Inferences
Here is a FAQ for using inferences as well as several resources.
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Observation and Inference
This 13-page PDF file includes a lesson plan and worksheets to help eighth graders differentiate between inference and observation.
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Making Inferences from Graphs
This 14-page PDF file includes a lesson plan for teaching students how to infer information from graphs.
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PBS: Dead Men's Tales
This six-page PDF file includes a lesson plan on inferring height from bone length. It will help students understand how inference is related to the scientific process.
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eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Inference for Middle School Students
These websites are about using inference while reading. Find out why inference skills are important and how to infer while reading. Includes lessons, activities, and graphic organizers. There is a link to an eTheme on inference skills for elementary school students.
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Inference Games and Activities
Here are some ideas for teaching inference using games and activities, such as comics, inference vs. facts, and guess the definition. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students
These websites will help elementary students learn how to infer while reading. There are activities, graphic organizers, and short lessons on inference. Includes a link on inference for middle school students.
Education Standards
- MO
- NV
- IL
