Practice making inferences about fiction with a language arts slide show presentation. After kids read a few tips about ways to predict the next event in a story, they read several passages and try to find out what will happen next based on clues in the text.

Concepts

making predictions, active reading, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, inferences, making inferences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a unit about making inferences
• Have kids work together to discuss each passage and come up with their predictions before sharing with the group
• Prompt your class to note the evidence from each passage that helps them form their inference

Classroom Considerations

• Presentation includes suggested answers after each passage; have your kids share their inferences before sharing the suggested answers, or eliminate those slides completely

Pros

• Helpful for science, social studies, and journalism, as well as language arts
• Straightforward and easy to follow

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.4.1