Inferring: Making and Supporting Inferences {Hands-On Practice}

Making inferences and providing support for them can be a HARD skill, especially if you are stuck reading a long, tedious article. :) So, when introducing inference to my ‘BIG’ 5th graders it had to be interactive.

In this hands-on resource, students work in pairs to ‘work backwards’. Given an inference, students are asked to create the story/situation in which that inference could be made. Then, groups partner up and test out their new stories.

Included in this hands-on and engaging resource…

Anchor Charts
*Inference
*Supporting My Inference

Teaching Resources
*Making Inferences - Guided Notes
*How Do We Know? Organizer
*2 Exit Slips (What is an inference? What can I infer?)

Working Backwards – I can infer…Activity
*notes to the teacher
*examples from my students
*I can infer… cards
*Recording Log

If you have any questions or specific requests, please let me know via the Q&A Section on TPT or by email at brownbagteacher@gmail.com.

Happy teaching,
Catherine
The Brown-Bag Teacher

For other hands-on ELA resources, check out my Main Idea: It's in the Bag, my 30 Prefix Puzzles, and my Greek and Latin Root Word Puzzles!