Making inferences is a skill that goes beyond the comprehension of written text. In this simple exercise, young learners are provided with a photograph and asked to answer a series of inference questions using only on the information provided in the image. The fun little activity adds some variety to the standard language arts curriculum.

Concepts

inferences, making inferences, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, supporting details, supporting evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use this exercise as either an in-class or homework assignment during a lesson series on making inferences
• Extend learning by having children take their own photographs and create inference questions based on them
• After answering the questions, have children use their inferences to write short stories about what is happening in the picture

Pros

• Included photograph clearly lends itself to making inferences
• Inference questions require students to cite specific evidence to support their ideas
• An answer key is included with the worksheet

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1