Making Inferences

This document includes several fiction passages that will prompt students to make inferences. These passages could be used as introductory activities, modeling, student practice, or as an assessment of students' abilities to make inferences. The document includes passages of different lengths and difficulty levels to provide differentiated instruction.

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Making Inferences

Standards & Objectives

Academic standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3
Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using...
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.8
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
GLE 0301.5.2
Use learned logic skills to make inferences and draw conclusions in a variety of oral and written contexts.
SPI 0301.5.3
Identify stated cause/effect relationships in text.
SPI 0301.5.4
Determine sequence of events in text.
 
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Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Analyzing

References

Contributors: 
Kristin Keatts
Originator: 
Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation