Encourage young readers to use their prior knowledge, as well as text clues, to draw inferences from text. Provide them with this worksheet that asks them to record a passage, the background information they already have, the text clues that signal an inference, and then the inferred meaning they find in the passage.

Concepts

making inferences, reading comprehension strategies

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Select a passage from a text class members have read to model how to use the worksheet

Classroom Considerations

• The second in a series of 22 resources focused on developing skills in drawing inferences

Pros

• The individual, rather than the instructor, selects the passages, identifies the clues, and draws the inferences

Cons

• No models are provided