Knowing how to make inferences is a very important skill for readers of all ages. Help your pupils master this ability by providing practice. Pupils read four short passages and answer two to three questions about each to practice making inferences.

Concepts

making inferences, inferences, reading comprehension, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign this page for homework or as a warm-up exercise
• Complete the first passage together, marking the text where you find textual support for evidence, and then have pupils complete the rest either on their own or with partners

Classroom Considerations

• Note that the answer key is a webpage rather than a PDF, but will print out normally if you wish to have a hard copy
• This is part of a series of inference worksheets

Pros

• Includes an answer key
• The worksheet requires learners to make inferences and explain how they made these inferences

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RL.6.1 RL.7.1 RL.8.1