Inferencing activity for high school - SHORT short stories

This is an inferencing activity that I use with my high school students.

Every year, inferencing is the first unit of any English class I teach, because it's critical for students to learn the skill of active reading - and always making connections, and reading between the lines for meaning.

This asks students to use their inferencing skills in a super creative way - to read VERY short short stories (some are just 6 words!) and make connections to their prior knowledge to make guesses about what the story is about.

It forces them to really analyze the punctuation / past tense present tense / gender clues / clues about setting etc. (every detail counts with so few words!)

It sparks some terrific discussions!!

Included is:

✤ an inferencing worksheet where they look at the 5 W's

✤ 19 SHORT short stories for you to print

...I find it best to do these in pairs or part of a rotation - I print them big on a piece of paper, full page, so that I can put them up in the class afterwards (students say they love looking at these when they're daydreaming in class, haha! A perfect distraction that makes them THINK)

It's so much fun...and really gets them talking and inferencing.

It pushes their reading skills to the limit.

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