You might infer that is worksheet is all about making inferences. And you'd be correct! Invite your learners to read four short passages. After reading each passage, pupils make inferences and support their inferences with textual evidence.

Concepts

making inferences, inferences, reading comprehension, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Work on the first passage with the whole class, modeling some text marking and inferring strategies along the way; learners can then finish the worksheet individually or with partners
• Assign the exercise for homework or as a starter

Classroom Considerations

• This is part of a series of worksheets that focuses on inferences
• The answer key is a webpage rather than a PDF, but will print out normally if you want a hard copy

Pros

• Requires pupils to not only make inferences, but also to support their inferences with evidence
• Comes with an answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

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