Provide readers with an opportunity to practice drawing inferences by giving them this worksheet. Kids identify the text and author, record a sentence they believe infers rather than directly says, and then write the deeper meaning the words imply.

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 you have read or are reading in class to model how to use the worksheet

Classroom Considerations

• The first in a series of 22 resources focusing on making inferences
• The worksheet assumes kids have already studied how authors use syntax and diction to show rather than tell

Pros

• The activity encourages readers to read closely, using context clues to draw inferences

Cons

• No models are included