Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students

These websites can help elementary students learn how to infer while reading. There are activities, graphic organizers, and short lessons on inference. Includes links to eThemes Resources on Teaching Tips: Inference and Inference for Middle School Students.

Grades

• 1,
• 2,
• 3,
• 4,
• 5

Links

• Inference Riddles

  Based on clues, student make inferences to determine the answer to a riddle.

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• Be a Critical Reader

  Complete these critical reading activities to practice making inferences.

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• Knows that Inferences Can Be Based on Characters

  Learn about how things characters say and do can help you make inferences about the story.

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• ReadWriteThink: Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison

  In this lesson, students draw inferences about an author and apply them as they try to detect the errors in an accurate biography of the author. Includes an overview, standards, resources and preparation, instructional plan, and related resources.

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• Quia: What Can You Infer

  Take a short interactive quiz to test your ability to use inference when you are reading.

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• Quia: Inference Battleship

  Play this fun game and learn how to infer.

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• Scholastic: Making Inferences - Grade 3

  This page contains worksheets for practicing making inferences. Some of the worksheets can be viewed full screen for use with a Smartboard.

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• Making Inferences

  This lesson plan uses the book "Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing" by Judi Barrett to teach the concept of inference.

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• Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions

  Read each story and try to infer the correct answers from the choices given.

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• Show What You Know

  Read this sort passage and try to infer what is implied in the text.

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• eThemes Resource: 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.

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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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Education Standards

• AU
  • RS1.7.5
  • RS2.5.2
• AL
  • 2.7
  • 3.11
  • 3.3
  • 3.4
  • 3.5
  • 3.6
  • 4.1
  • 4.2
  • 4.3
  • 4.4
  • 6.2
• ME
  • A1.a
  • A1.a
  • A1.a
  • A1.f
  • A1.f
  • A2.a
  • f.
• MO
  • 1.5
  • 5
  • R.1.G.b
  • R.1.G.b
  • R.1.G.d
  • R.1.G.d
  • R.1.G.d
  • R.1.G.e
  • R.2.C.a
  • R.2.C.b
  • R.2.C.b
  • R.2.C.b
  • R.3.C.e
  • R.3.C.f
  • R.3.C.g
  • R.3.C.g
• NV
  • 2.1.2.1.c
  • 2.2.2.1.e
  • 2.3.2.1.e
  • 2.4.2.1.e
  • 2.5.2.1.e
  • 3.1.1.2
  • 3.1.2.3
  • 3.2.1.5
  • 3.2.2.3
  • 3.3.1.4
  • 3.3.2.4
  • 3.4.1.5
  • 3.4.2.4
  • 3.5.1.8
  • 3.5.2.5
  • 4.1.6.2
  • 4.2.6.2
  • 4.3.6.2
  • 4.4.6.2
  • 4.5.6.2
• UT
  • 1.2.c
  • 1.2.c
  • 3.1.c
• OK
  • A.3.2.a
  • A.3.2.a
  • A.3.2.b
  • A.3.2.c
  • A.3.2.d
  • A.3.4.f
  • A.4.2.a
  • A.5.1.f
  • A.5.2.a
  • A.6.2
  • A.6.2.c
• DE
  • 2.1.3.b
  • 2.1.3.c
  • 2.3a.1.g
  • 2.3a.1.g
  • 2.3a.1.g
  • 2.3a.1.g
  • 2.4i.1
  • 2.4i.1
  • 2.4i.1
  • 2.4i.1
  • 2.4i.1
  • 2.4i.2
  • 2.4i.2
  • 2.4i.2
  • 2.4i.2
  • 2.4i.2
  • 2.4i.3
  • 2.4i.3
  • 4.2a.1
  • 4.2a.1
  • 4.2a.1
  • 4.2a.1
  • 4.2a.2
  • 4.2a.2
  • 4.2a.2
  • 4.2a.2
  • 4.2a.3
• IL
  • 1.11.08
  • 1.11.18
  • 3.3.21
  • 3.5.21

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Created: September 13, 2005 at 10:32 | Updated: June 14, 2012 at 15:21