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Title:
| Teaching Tips: Inference |
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Description:
| These websites are about the importance of inference while reading and how to teach students inference skills. There are activity ideas, lesson plans, and graphic organizers. Some lesson plans are about using inference during the scientific process. There are links to eThemes on inference for elementary school students and inference for middle school students. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Teaching Students to Make Inferences
Here is a list of ways that inferring can help students understand a text.
Inferential Reading Strategy
Find out how you can help your students start to make inferences while they are reading.
Inference Notes
This one-page PDF file includes a graphic organizer for making inferences about a character.
Text and Subtext
This one-page PDF file includes a graphic organizer to help students draw inferences from a text.
Observation and Inference
This 13-page PDF file includes a lesson plan and worksheets to help eighth graders differentiate between inference and observation.
Making Inferences from Graphs
This 14-page PDF file includes a lesson plan for teaching students how to infer information from graphs.
PBS: Dead Men's Tales
This six-page PDF file includes a lesson plan on inferring height from bone length. It will help students understand how inference is related to the scientific process.
eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students
These websites will help elementary students learn how to infer while reading. There are activities, graphic organizers, and short lessons on inference. Includes a link on inference for middle school students.
eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Inference for Middle School Students
These websites are about using inference while reading. Find out why inference skills are important and how to infer while reading. Includes lessons, activities, and graphic organizers. There is a link to an eTheme on inference skills for elementary school students.
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Education Standards:
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IL Standards:
1.11.08, 1.11.10, 1.11.11, 1.11.18
MO Standards:
1.5, 1.6, 2, 3, 5
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