Inference Chains Activity

Inference Chains Activity

How to teach Making Inferences

Using Inference Chains Activity,  students refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

As students read, making inferences is one of the reading comprehension skill they will use the most. This activity will help your students put together their schema and facts from the text to figure out what is happening in the pictures.

Choose a story. Using the evidence chains, make an inference about an event in the story, a character, or even what might happen next. Then fill in the next two links with an exact quote from the story that supports your thinking and another supporting detail.


Other resources to use with this Inference Chains Activity

If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about making an inference.

Use these To Infer or Not to Infer Activity as additional resources for your students.

Introduce this activity by showing your students a picture. Next, have students make inferences about what is happening in the picture. Push students to explain why they think those ideas.  Then, students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, students create descriptions of locations for their partners to make inferences about. Once finished, students can use the graphic organizer with other texts.

Be sure to check out more Inference Activities.


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