These inferencing task cards and digital activities are essential for developing reading skills. They include short passages with text-dependent questions, options for differentiation, and are suitable for 4th-6th grade. Teachers can use them for test prep, small groups, or whole class activities.
For some great inferencing teacher tips, check our blog post about making inferences!
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Making Inferences is an important reading skill, and these inferencing task cards and digital activities can help!
Each card/slide features a short passage with a text-dependent question plus a follow-up question asking students to explain their reasoning. Students will need to use clues within the text to infer their answers.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
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Great for 4th, or 5th, or 6th grade!
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NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable.
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These making inferences task cards are perfect for test prep! Use orally in small groups, or individually as a writing assignment at a literacy center. Another option is to use one card at a time with the entire class. Students can answer on notebook paper and track the cards they have completed on the included recording sheet. An answer key is also included. In addition, there is an inference poster, a cover/label card, and a challenge card that can be used with any other card in the set to extend the activity.
Teacher Tip
Here’s what teachers are saying:
✏️ “I have had such a hard time finding inference activities for small groups or individual students…this is perfect! The students can discuss, they have to justify their reasoning, and their ability to make inferences is strengthened through this practice. Thank you!!!!” -Rebecca G.
✏️ “Absolutely love these! Taught using a few each day when teaching inferences skill then used one or two occasionally to review as “bell” work as the kids entered my classroom each day. Interesting to see/hear what the kids inferred on some – more than one inference possible on some which encouraged debate using text details to support inference.” -Christina L.
✏️ “The rigor of these cards is perfect for where my kiddos are right now. They “get” just enough on their own to feel successful, but there is certainly enough meat to really make most of my students think.” -Wendy L.
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About the Author
These passages were written by me, Rachel Lynette. I am a published author of over 120 nonfiction books for children on a variety of subjects, as well as several teacher resource books. I have written for publishers such as Harcourt, Thompson-Gale, Rosen, Children’s Press, Evan-Moor, Kagan, and several others. These passages reflect more than a decade of professional writing experience.
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This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
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Parent Teacher Solutions –
I used this as a center for my small groups. They could do the online version independently and practice inferencing while I worked with another group! It was engaging and beneficial.
JeriAnn D. –
It’s a great lesson, unfortunately I am not tech savvy enough to figure it out. I assigned this through Google classroom and instructed the students to do 5-6 per day and planned on this being their morning bellwork. We discovered this morning that it didn’t save the work from the previous day and now I can’t figure out how to grade the ones that were submitted. It’s not a particularly intuitive way of assigning work.
Jennifer Ford –
Used this with a small group of students for intervention. The task cards were great for short, easy to implement exercises.
Marlyn Childers –
This was perfect for online tutoring with my ESL students to be able to practice making inferences in fiction texts. Thank you!!
fatima M. –
I actually really enjoy these inference cards with my students are struggling to make inferences about texts. They are very helpful and the scenarios are perfectly designed so that you can ask your students guided questions to lead them to make inferences for themselves.
Mike Cheung –
Love all the inference cards. It would be great if it comes with more cards, or to add more cards to the Google Slides version.
Lorissa Grant –
Used for inferencing in speech therapy. Always looking for more inferencing activities and my students really connected with this one.
Michelle E. –
These are easy to use and the task cards enable me to work with students as they are independently engaged.
Ms Lehmans Little Learners –
This was a great resource to use at the end of our unit over making inferences! It was easy for students to complete, and low prep for me!
Alissa Seidler –
Students worked independently to answer 1 card from each sheet that I had hung around the room. This helped me quickly see who needed extra support with this assignment. Students were engaged and asked if they could do more than what was required.