Making inferences activities

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!

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!

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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.

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…

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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…

Inferences are my favorite! There are so many fun ways to teach students how to infer during reading. It requires some higher order thinking skills, so it can be difficult for students to grasp. I have some ways and ideas to make teaching making inferences super fun and engaging! Making inferences is almost like being a reading detective who has to solve a case. The author might not directly state something in a text. The reader has to use the text evidence, along with their schema, to make…

Making inferences is a skill every student can master with these fun activities! This blog post is packed with tips and idea for unique ways for first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students to practice making inferences in the classroom. Click the pin to check out all the engaging ideas!

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 […]