This making inference activity and lesson plan will help all of your readers succeed at making inferences and inferring as they independently read in your upper elementary and middle school classrooms. Making inference mentor text included.

Make sure your students are being challenged when they are making inferences with these inference worksheets & activities for middle school!

Find fantastic resources for teaching inferences (with free mini lesson). The resources are ideal for 4th graders but also features ideas for grades 1-3.

6 inference lesson plans that are middle school student approved! Engage your students while helping them practice and develop their inference skills.

Unsure of how to teach inference? These fun and engaging inferencing activities for middle school will excite your students!

I love middle school. But they think so quickly that they don’t necessarily think about what they are thinking! In science specifically, they have to know the difference between an observation and an inference. Their observations lead to their inferences and generally serve as evidence for their inferences. To introduce this idea, I give them that “angry teacher” stance and eyes and ask them how I am feeling. Without fail, they tell me that I’m mad, angry, upset, that they want to run away and hide (HAHA!!)… and a few will say my arms are crossed or I’m not smiling, but usually not without some prompting asking them how they know I’m angry. They can tell you clearly that I’m upset, but I need them to break it down and use their observations as evidence for their inferences. Keeping this in mind, we added a page in our notebooks differentiating between an observation and an inference. These notes are quick, simple, and to the point. I love their notebooks because it means they have the information in their possession for the rest of the year! Next, I told them that I took a trip this summer with NASA to another […]

For the most part, reasoning, deducing, inferring, and critical thinking are not skills that come naturally to our students. Rather, they must be nurtured and developed. We want our students to become critical thinkers so they can reason and apply logic to solve novel problems throughout their lives. These skills will set them up to...

I love middle school. But they think so quickly that they don’t necessarily think about what they are thinking! In science specifically, they have to know the difference between an observation and an inference. Their observations lead to their inferences and generally serve as evidence for their inferences. To introduce this idea, I give them that “angry teacher” stance and eyes and ask them how I am feeling. Without fail, they tell me that I’m mad, angry, upset, that they want to run away and hide (HAHA!!)… and a few will say my arms are crossed or I’m not smiling, but usually not without some prompting asking them how they know I’m angry. They can tell you clearly that I’m upset, but I need them to break it down and use their observations as evidence for their inferences. Keeping this in mind, we added a page in our notebooks differentiating between an observation and an inference. These notes are quick, simple, and to the point. I love their notebooks because it means they have the information in their possession for the rest of the year! Next, I told them that I took a trip this summer with NASA to another […]

Make sure your students are being challenged when they are making inferences with these inference worksheets & activities for middle school!

Looking for a no-prep, assign-and-go inference practice for your middle school students? Try this interactive, self-paced Inference Game Board! In this Google Slides activity, students will work their way through a game board by watching videos, reading a variety of texts (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) examining cartoons and photos, and making inferences all the while! What's Included: 11 different activities to practice inferences What Makes an Inference Video + Slide Nonfiction Texts: Historical Nonfiction Science Nonfiction Informational Texts including directions and a resume Fiction Texts Realistic Fiction Fantasy 2 activities examining non-print texts (photo and cartoon) to make inferences Analyzing a commercial for inferences! Perfect for ZERO PREP sub plans, early finishers, individual or collaborative work, extra practice, etc!

Unsure of how to teach inference? These fun and engaging inferencing activities for middle school will excite your students!

Unsure of how to teach inference? These fun and engaging inferencing activities for middle school will excite your students!

Make sure your students are being challenged when they are making inferences with these inference worksheets & activities for middle school!

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If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.

6 inference lesson plans that are middle school student approved! Engage your students while helping them practice and develop their inference skills.

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6 inference lesson plans that are middle school student approved! Engage your students while helping them practice and develop their inference skills.

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Make the most of your reading instruction with these engaging reading comprehension activities for middle school!

With the Common Core Standards in place, students are being asked more and more to use critical thinking skills to analyze literary and informational text. Inference is a prime example of a critical thinking skill used in classrooms today. Students are asked to read text and analyze it by

By Presto Plans When you ask students to describe a character’s traits, determine the theme of a story, examine cause and effect, or even to try to guess the meaning of a vocabulary word, you are asking them to infer. Inference is an essential skill in English language arts, but sometimes we overlook the importance of intentionally providing the tools, strategies, and practice that students require to improve this skill. 1. BUILD A FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING INFERENCES According to Marzano, there are certain thinking and reasoning processes that have come to be recognized as “foundational to higher-order thinking” and inference is one of them. Not only that, but it is skill that is integral to comprehension in the ELA classroom. Students might not realize it, but they are actually making inferences all the time, which essentially means that they are making assumptions, educated guesses, and/or predictions based on the information they have or know from personal experience or their own background knowledge. Grab these free classroom posters to remind students of the meaning of inference as well as thinking/discussion stems they can use when they are inferring information. In order for students to understand how to infer, they first need to be instructed on what inference is and be given opportunities to practice this skill. The hope is that with this practice, students will hone this skill and begin using it automatically. To build this skill, there are four questions that Marzano suggests teachers pose to students to generate meaningful conversation and instruction around teaching inference: - What is my inference? - What information did I use to make this inference? - How good was my thinking? - Do I need to change my thinking? Weave these questions into your instruction, questions, assignments, and language to help students build capacity in inferential thinking. 2. TEACH STUDENTS TO SHOW VS. TELL Teaching students how to write using the Show vs. Tell method is an excellent way to introduce inferential thinking as it allows them to experience how authors use description and imagery that allow the reader to deduce information. Students will be able to see through the writing process that when an author is showing something, they are relaying thoughts, feelings, emotions, senses, and descriptions in the text in a deeper and more meaningful way. One of my favorite ways to get students to understand the difference between showing and telling is to have students write a paragraph about a time that they felt a very strong emotion (anger, excitement, sadness, joy, disgust, surprise), but tell them that they are not permitted to use that specific word (or synonyms for that word in the paragraph). Instead, they must show the reader this emotion through character, setting, and conflict descriptions. For example, Students will find this exercise challenging, but it will help them understand the meaning of inference and hopefully will have an impact on how they read between the lines of other texts they encounter. 3. INTEGRATE REAL-WORLD INFERENCES Students may not know that they are making inferences about others on a daily basis and, in turn, others are making inferences about them as well. Bringing real-world examples into your classroom activities will help students see that inference is not limited to text analysis. Below are a couple of my favorite ways to do this: - SOCIAL MEDIA A lot can be inferred from a Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram profile. Have students examine random social media profiles to make inferences about the people based on what that person posts, shares, and comments. I like to share these pre-made profiles and have students examine what they read, what they know, and what they can infer. You can also discuss the idea of “vaguebooking” with students. Vaguebook updates are intentionally vague Facebook status updates that prompt friends to ask what's going on. For example someone might post “Ouchhhhh!!! I can’t believe how incredibly clumsy I am… UGH. Off to the ER…” They intentionally are fishing for someone to comment to ask what is going on or, at the very least, are getting their friends to infer what might be happening. This makes for a perfect inference activity as students need to use the information they know about their friend to infer what the post may be about. I share these vague status updates I created as a fun classroom activity to practice making inferences. - MUSIC Another great way to speak your students’ language is to incorporate music lyrics that require inferences into your teaching. There are many songs that tell a story, but what exactly happens is not explicitly stated. These songs are perfect to practice inference as they encourage students to look closely at the lyrics to infer what is going on. Some songs that I like to use are: Two Black Cadillacs by Carrie Underwood Someone Like You by Adele Teardrops on my Guitar by Taylor Swift Some of these songs do have mature content and topics and work best for high school. It’s also important that you look at the lyrics carefully to ensure they are appropriate for your grade level or school community. 4 INCORPORATE VIDEO A unique and fun way to improve inference skills is to have students watch short films that have no words and infer what is happening based on what they’ve watched. One of my favorite video clips to use are the Hungarian Shadow Dancers who were featured on Britain’s Got Talent. Here are two performances you can use: The dances have absolutely no words, but audience members are brought to tears because of what they infer from the performances. Have students create a three column table where they record what they see (consider location, events, people), what they know from their background knowledge and then what they infer from the performance. If you have a younger audience, Pixar makes amazing short, silent, animated films that would also work perfect for this. I recommend starting with the film, Partly Cloudy. 5. INFER INFORMATION FROM IMAGES - WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS PICTURE? Since 2012, The New York Times has been helping students fine tune their close reading and visual thinking skills through their popular “What’s Going On in This Picture?” feature, with incredible success. Together, with arts education organization Visual Thinking Strategies, they have attracted the interest of—not only thousands of students from all over the world—but the participation of entire classrooms. Here is a curated list of their 40 most popular/favourites to give you an idea if you are unfamiliar. Each week an interesting New York Times photo is selected with all captions and context removed, and students are challenged to look closely and infer what they think is going on in the photo. Students are asked to support their inferences with “evidence”, elaborating on what made them draw the conclusions they did, and to look even closer to see what else they might be able to find. They are also encouraged to consider the observations of others and respond thoughtfully. A few days after the photo is posted each week, more information is revealed about it. Students are then able to reflect on whether knowing more about the photo changes the way they see it, and if so, how. The goal is to get students “engaged in a writing or discussion activity”, and to ultimately foster their “writing, thinking, speaking and listening” skills. - MISSING CAMERA MYSTERY ACTIVITY It’s something you may have seen on social media - a lost camera or even just a memory card has been found, and someone posts the photos online in hopes of returning the presumably priceless memories to their rightful owner. One can make a lot of educated guesses about a stranger based on their photos alone, and in some cases those inferences might even lead to the camera’s return to its rightful owner. For example, you might see a logo on someone’s t-shirt and be able to determine their place of work, you might see a street sign in the background and be able to guess where they live. You might see a photo of a group celebrating a birthday at a popular restaurant or someone enjoying a yoga class at a popular studio. These are all clues that allow one to play detective, and hopefully a successful one. You can easily bring this experience into the classroom by having students play detective by giving them lost pictures from a missing camera and having them make inferences about the owner based on those images. They might be pictures of a wedding day, or grandparents meeting their precious grandchild for the first time; a once in a lifetime family vacation or a milestone birthday celebration. Whatever the case may be, you don’t have to know the people to gather some information on the camera’s owner. 6. USE SHORT STORIES THAT REQUIRE INFERENCE - THE CHASER BY JOHN COLLIER One of my favorite stories to teach inference is The Chaser by John Collier. The story is about a young man named Alan who is desperate to make a woman named Diana fall in love with him. So desperate, in fact, that he is willing to use a love potion! The story requires students make a great deal of inferences to piece together what exactly happens at the end of the plot. - ORDEAL BY CHEQUE BY WITHER CRUE Another great story to use is Visual story Ordeal by Cheque by Wuther Crue. This isn’t your traditional short story as the story is told entirely with images of cheques. Students must interpret the plot line, characters, and conflict based solely on the information shared on the cheques (the date, who it was made out to, who issued the cheque, and the amount it was for etc.). Put students into groups and have them piece together the story and present their inferences to the rest of the class. 7. HAVE STUDENTS SOLVE A MYSTERY Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Your students will love having the opportunity to get their collective Sherlock Holmes on by working together to solve a real-world mystery. One of my favorite real-world mysteries occurred in 1978 when a construction crew uncovered a buried ship underground in the middle of downtown. Students watch a hand-drawn video that tells the backstory, and speculate on the purpose the ship once served, who owned it, and why it remained buried for so many years without being discovered. Another way to have students solve a mystery is to present them with a crime and have them play detective. You can either do this by setting up a crime scene in the classroom and have them infer what happened. You can also share information, evidence, witness testimonies, and have students weave a story together and solve a crime. Try this out for free using my Who Kidnapped the Principal? resource. 8. SEARCH THROUGH THE TRASH Let’s be honest, most people don’t sit around pondering what could be deduced about them based on the contents of their trash. But your trash can actually reveal a lot about your interests, preferences, activities, and household routines. Another fun activity you can use to help students practice inference is to have them examine the contents of someone else’s trash to make inferences about that person based on their own background knowledge. Bring in some bags of "clean trash" and have students create a character sketch of the person it could belong to. Inference is a necessary 21st century skill that many students struggle with, but it can be developed over time, with practice. Inference skills improve the ability to bridge gaps in information and improve reading comprehension. By implementing creative ways to get students comfortable with inferring, they will realize that it isn’t as complicated as they may think. Need other ideas for teaching students to infer? Check out some of the other Coffee Shop blogger ideas below! Black Cat Inferences Challenge by Nouvelle ELA Teaching the Process of Literary Analysis Activities and Strategies by Room 213

Find fantastic resources for teaching inferences (with free mini lesson). The resources are ideal for 4th graders but also features ideas for grades 1-3.

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6 inference lesson plans that are middle school student approved! Engage your students while helping them practice and develop their inference skills.

Product Description: Observations vs. Inferences worksheets are easy, no prep interactive activities for middle school learners. Product Details: 1. PDF Activity worksheet on gathering quantitative and qualitative observations. Students gather their observations in the classroom or outside with a lab partner. Students make a list of quantitative and qualitative observations. 2. PDF Activity worksheet on making observations into inferences. Students take their observations and make inferences about them. Check out my other NGSS and Intro to Science Activities! 1. NGSS Phenomenal Backyard Scavenger Hunt 2. Lab Safety Scavenger Hunt 3. What Does a Scientist Look Like? Let's Connect for more awesome resources and great NGSS tips! CLICK HERE! Want a FREE GUIDE to IMPLEMENT THE 3D OF NGSS???---->>>CLICK HERE

Unsure of how to teach inference? These fun and engaging inferencing activities for middle school will excite your students!

Using movies, short films or animations in the classroom is extremely engaging for students. I use short films from Pixar Studios to teach a variety of skills

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Making inferences and citing text evidence are important reading comprehension skills, but they aren’t always fun. This money-saving inferencing and citing evidence text message analysis activity provides engaging practice that your students will love! This resource includes a variety of text message conversations students read and analyze in order to draw inferences and cite evidence. This print-and-go resource is also perfect for stations and sub plans. Upper elementary and middle school students make inferences more often than they realize. This engaging activity provides relevant practice with these important reading comprehension skills. Students read a short text message conversation and then answer questions that require them to make inferences and cite evidence. Your students will love this fun and engaging resource! This resource includes: A wide variety of engaging text message conversations and questions A printable PDF option A digital Google Slides option Answer keys This resource is perfect for reviewing inferences and citing evidence. It is great for an engaging lesson. It can also be used as morning work, as a bell ringer, or for early finishers. It would also be ideal to use the day before or after holidays or breaks! This bundle includes products for the following: Back to School Fall Halloween Thanksgiving Winter Christmas New Year's Valentine's Day Spring Easter End of the Year Your students will love making inferences after reading text message conversations. They will also love discussing the different answers they chose and using text evidence to support their answers. Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):  RL 5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL 6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RL 7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Save even more money with the Holiday & Seasonal Reading Comprehension Mega Bundle! Make sure to follow me to be notified when I post new products!

Making inferences worksheets and activities aren't always easy for students, but there are fun ways to teach this challenging reading skill.

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Making inferences worksheets and activities aren't always easy for students, but there are fun ways to teach this challenging reading skill.