Making Inferences Fiction & Nonfiction Inference Activities Inferencing Activity

Looking for easy-to-use, fun inference activities that really help your students master the art of making inferences as they read? This Inferences Bundle Using Literature and Informational Text for 4th and 5th graders comes in both print and digital and is filled with passages, 5 sets of task cards, posters, games, and activities to help your students practice the very important reading strategy. Everything you need is here to introduce, teach, and review this standard!

The Informational Text Unit includes: (Print and Digital)

7 Passages

1. Historical Text: Pizza's Early History
2. Historical Text: Basketball's Invention
3. Historical Text: Pony Express Riders
4. Scientific Text: Comets
5. Scientific Text: Grizzly Bears
6. Scientific Text: Gecko Lizards
7. Technical Text: How to Make a Volcano

32 Picture Inference Task Cards

32 What is it? Inference Task Cards

Step by Step Inferences Handout

Inference Question Types Handout/Mini-Poster

Making Inferences Graphic Organizer

Secrets from the Trash Activity (with 32 Task Cards)

Inference Windows Worksheet (clues with flaps to reveal a mystery item)

What’s in Mrs. (or Miss/Ms.) _____________'s Purse (or Mr. ______'s Bag) Activity

Top Secret Inference Bag Homework Activities

5 Question Types Posters

Teacher Notes

Teacher Notes for Digital with LINKS

The Inferences Using Literature Set includes: (Print and Digital)

32 Inference Riddles Task Cards (and student record sheet)

32 Inferences from Pictures Task Cards (and student record sheet)

6 Double-Sided Passages with Questions

1. The Grasshopper and the Ant
2. Turtle and Pigeon
3. The Stonecutter
4. Being Greedy Doesn't Pay, Anansi
5. The Lost Horse
6. The Story of Arachne

Top Secret Mystery Box Homework

Inference Types Handout

Making Inferences Graphic Organizer

Occupation Inferences Worksheet

Character Inference Windows

Inferences from a Shopping Bag Game (cards, record sheet, and shopping bag tag)

Keys Teacher Notes

Teacher Notes for Digital with LINKS and a step by step explanation of making an assignment in Google Classroom™

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Why you'll love this resource:

• There are a variety of materials included, from task cards, to games, activities, passages, and graphic organizers.

• Everything comes in both print and digital, so it works well in the classroom and for homeschool.

• The passages are high interest and include fiction and nonfiction reading.

• The fiction inference set includes Aesop's Fables, a Greek Myth and folktales from around the world, which are engaging but not always easy to find.

• You can use this resource in so many ways, from reader's workshop time, guided reading, literacy centers, whole class games, exit slips, SCOOT and scavenger hunts, homework, test prep, and more!

If you'd like to see each unit in more detail, here they are:

Inferences Using Informational Text for 4th/5th Grades

Inferences Using Literature: 3rd - 5th grades

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Inference Board Game

Inference Puzzle Game

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20 Fiction and Nonfiction Games for 4th/5th Grades

30 Grammar Games for 4th

30 Grammar Games for 5th

Character Education Kit

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