A fun reading lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to make inferences using a combination of prior knowledge and text clues. Here we have a class anchor chart example using an image from a news website, showing a bus being rescued in a flood.

4 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Making Inferences

Using a range of texts, this mini-unit will explicitly step students through the skill of inferring meaning. A number of different mentor texts are suggested, however this unit lends itself well to most fiction and non-fiction texts. While these lessons work well as a sequence and have been designed to complement each other, they can also be used as stand alone lessons when teaching students how to infer.

A fun reading lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to make inferences using a combination of prior knowledge and text clues. Here we have a class anchor chart example using an image from a news website, showing a bus being rescued in a flood.

4 Lessons

Grade: 3-6

Making Inferences

Using a range of texts, this mini-unit will explicitly step students through the skill of inferring meaning. A number of different mentor texts are suggested, however this unit lends itself well to most fiction and non-fiction texts. While these lessons work well as a sequence and have been designed to complement each other, they can also be used as stand alone lessons when teaching students how to infer.

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Essential Question/s

How can I infer meaning from a text?

Cross Curriculum Priorities

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia
Sustainability

General Capabilities

Critical and Creative thinking
Literacy

Lessons

4 Lessons

Lesson 1

A fun reading lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to make inferences using a combination of prior knowledge and text clues. Here we have a class anchor chart example using an image from a news website, showing a bus being rescued in a flood.

Lesson
Reading

Inferring - With Images

Grades: 3-6

Inferring meaning in images using picture clues and prior knowledge.

Lesson 2

A fun reading lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to make inferences using a combination of prior knowledge and text clues as they determine the thoughts, feelings and dialogue of characters using post it notes. Here we have an example using Aaron Becker’s wordless picture book, Journey.

Lesson
Reading

Inferring - Wordless Picture Books

Grades: 3-5

Inferring characters’ thoughts and feelings in a wordless picture book.

Lesson 3

A fun reading lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to make inferences about characters’ thoughts and feelings from dialogue using speaker tags and prior knowledge. Here we have an example using inferences drawn from dialogue in Janell Cannon’s picture book, Verdi.

Lesson
Reading

Inferring - From Dialogue

Grades: 3-6

Inferring characters’ thoughts and feelings from dialogue.

Lesson 4

A fun reading lesson for grade 3-6 to develop students’ ability to make inferences and draw conclusions using information from the text and prior knowledge. Here we have an example of the strategy being practised with the scaffold, I read… I know… So I conclude… , using Kate DiCamillo’s book, Because of Winn-Dixie.

Lesson
Reading

Inferring - Drawing Conclusions

Grades: 3-6

Using information drawn from the text along with prior knowledge to infer meaning.

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