Strategies for Making Inferences: Introduction to Inferences Workbook

Help your students gain confidence by tackling the following skills:

• Review the inferencing hierarchy

• Introduce terms like "background knowledge," "inference," and "evidence"

• Teach students to use graphic organizers to build background knowledge

• Practice using sentence frames and visuals to formulate inferences

• Make inferences from single photos and illustrations

• Discuss how inferences change given new evidence

• Practice inferencing from a series of images

• Learn how to formulate inferences from words

• Review effective strategies for inferring the meaning of unknown words

• Talk about shades of meaning and sort words by intensity

• Make inferences from sentences

• Combine visual evidence and text evidence to make inferences from images with captions

• ...and SO much more!

This research-based resource was created for students in upper elementary and middle school speech and language, but it would also serve as an excellent tool for special education and language arts classes. Product can be printed or viewed as a digital PDF.

Also, be sure to check back in early 2023 for the release of the second inferencing workbook, 'Making Inferences from Text.'