Making Inferences Informational Text Nonfiction Inference Activities Inferencing

Looking for a way to help your students make meaningful inferences using nonfiction text? You'll love this print and digital ready-to-teach complete unit with 7 passages (historical, scientific, and technical), 3 sets of task cards, posters, games, and fun activities.

Each learning activity will reinforce the importance of making inferences using informational text as a reading comprehension strategy. The scaffolded resources and teacher notes provide lots of helpful tips to make the unit easy for you to teach and manage!

This set includes: (Print and Digital)

7 Passages (4 multiple choice and 3 open-ended)

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 Organizers (5)

Inference Anchor Charts (5)

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 PDF with LINKS

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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.

• It includes a DIGITAL version that works well for the classroom and for homeschooling.

• The passages are high interest and include nonfiction reading from historical, scientific, and technical genres.

• There are THREE SETS OF TASK CARDS, including picture inferences, secrets from the trash inferences, and "What is it?" which has very old or little-known items (like an early watch, telephone, or washing machine) and asks students to infer what the object is.

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

If you'd like to see the Inference Using Literature unit in more detail, here it is:

Inferences Using Literature: 3rd - 5th grades

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