Making Inferences Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RL.4.2

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Inferences are decisions or deductions that you make when you have a good set of primary evidence to base it on. An inference is not subjective or an opinion to any level. You need plenty of cold hard facts to reach a level where you are highly confident to infer anything. I often ask students to underline key facts in whatever they are reading. This allows them to revisit what they have read and compile layers of evidentiary pieces to mount an inference. These worksheets will help students begin to understand the process of leaning into facts and making decisions based on those facts.

Making Inferences Worksheets To Print:

Where am I? - Try to find the location of where this story happens. Write where you think the passage in happening and explain your answer.

Who am I? - This is a picture activity. Come to a conclusion by circling the correct image.

Who am I Not? - Fires or criminals, I'm not sure which is more harmful. Use the statements to make an inference by circling your choice. Justify your inference regarding your choice.

Where are we? - A picnic and adventure story. Where does the story take place? How do you know?

Where are we? Revisited - His mouth hit the floor? That is just a hyperbole now isn't?

Drawing Conclusions - Following squirrels around is a tough business.

Reading Passage - Read each paragraph below and answer the inference question that follows. Read the story about the squirrel and his acorns.

Figure it Out - Mark the correct answer by looking deep into each sentence.

Making Inferences - Read about Josh and his dad. Then write about what you think Josh and his dad will do.

Reading Passage 2 - The inferences here are quite simple. Pay particular attention to the quotes.

Drawing Conclusions - Decide if each sentence about the story is true or false and write your answer at the end of the sentence.

What's going on? - James was the first boy in Miss Lane's class to find red sports on his face and arms.

Making a Call - You can be the judge of this one. What do you think will happen next?

From the Text - You will choose a selection of text and see what you feel is going on.

When Writing - Look at the picture. Write a paragraph from the stormtrooper's point of view. Do not use the words toy or Lego. Allow the reader to infer that the POV character is a toy.

What to Do? - Draw a picture of what you think Wendy and her mother are going to do.

Too Many Details - Writing is most interesting to a reader if they are allowed to figure some things out for themselves rather than writing down every single detail about what is going on.

George's Friends - You will make educated guesses and show how you came about them.

What Time Is It? - Read each sentence and see if you can determine the time of day the event is taking place.

In Home - We provide you with picture inside people's homes. What can you tell about those people from the pictures?

My Location - Write down as many concrete things about your location as you can think of. Try to think of at least one thing for each of the five senses.

Reading Passages - We put this skill to practical use.

Fall Scene - Look at the picture. Write a paragraph from which the reader can infer the location.

Short Entry Practice - You will breakdown a paragraph and make sense of it for yourself.

Character Thoughts - Describe the character's personality. Write down what the text specifically says about your character. Quote explicitly from the text to support your answer.

Where Are You? - Read each passage. Where is it taking place? Write your answer on the line. Briefly explain your answer.

By the Book - Fill in the chart below to make a solid deduction from the text provided.

Your Thoughts In a Sentence - Make a conclusion from each sentence.

More Inference Worksheet Topics:

Citing Textual Evidence- This shows students how to validate their argument with facts.

Creating Inferences From What We Read- How to spot the claims and arguments you can make in written text.

Drawing Inferences- How to mount a substantial claim with facts.

Drawing Inferences From Text- How do you frame this picture for your audience?

Explaining A Story From Illustrations- Pictures can lead us to make claims that we can validate as well.

Interpreting And Inferring From Text- This is not the easiest process for students, but they can come across some good tips here.

Making Inferences From Text- The big message here is to build off of your prior knowledge.

Evaluating Claims In A Text- We lead students down a path to find where to look.

Explaining Details and Drawing Inferences From Text- Paying attention to the finest of details can score you a lot of points here.

Fact Based Concluding Statements- When you hit them with facts, it makes it difficult for them to counter it.

Pronunciation and Meaning of Words With References- In this case, we show you how to pronounce words when given a reference source.

Textual Evidence- What is it and how to locate it within a thick passage?

Using Evidence To Support Claims- This is a starter kit for writers. You will begin to understand how to use them in your writing.

Using Illustrations and Details For Key Ideas- How can we use drawings to validate our points?

Supporting Evidence- How to develop a solid sack of evidence.

Using Illustrations and Details to Describe Stories- This is where we take a mixture of drawings and text to mount our point.

Using Parts of A Story To Infer- In most cases, you will need to flash a position between two parts of the story.

Using Textual Evidence- How to reword the evidence to prepare a clear position about your point.

Using Quotes From Text- How to you locate them and how do you arrange them for your readers?

Validating Claims With Evidence- How much evidence is enough and how should you present it?

Writing Arguments to Support Evidence- This is what attorneys do all day long.

Writing Evidence To Support Your Opinion- Sometimes it is not the evidence itself, but how it is displayed that make it valid.


Steps to Making Solid Inferences


When you are presented with a question or argument you have to prepare to tackle it is always good to make inferences rather than guesses. Inferences are objective and it is hard to argue against facts. The first step you should take is to make sure that you understand the question or argument that you working with. Many students try to answer questions that they do not understand. Ask yourself if you could completely explain this to someone else, if so it's time to go after the answer and some facts to help us along. You can start by breaking the reading into pieces. Highlighters are a huge help in this stage of the process. Highlight or underline any facts you come across when viewing this material. Save this material for when you compose your thoughts into a writing or speech.


Now that you found your evidence it is time to put this to use. Review all of the evidence you have found and see if there is some sort of pattern or group that the evidence follows. Lump those pieces of evidence that are similar together. The final and most important goal is to piece these facts to help you frame your argument. You need to present the facts in a way that backs each of your assertions.


How to Make Inferences from What You Read?


While reading, readers follow a systematic approach and use the knowledge they have from the text to make a guess about what has not been mentioned directly. This practice of reading between the lines is generally known as making inferences from the text. This process is a bit critical, but becomes easy with regular practice.


It requires the readers to use their past experiences and clues from whatever they have read from the text to answer a specific questions related to it. Making inferences is a very useful technique as it not only develops strong critical thinking skills, but also makes it easy to memorize the text one has read. Here is a five-step method that can make the process of making inferences from whatever you read easier than ever:


Read the Text Carefully


The first step is to read whatever has been given to you with absolute care and keenness without missing any minor detail. Read a paragraph twice if necessary and make sure you understand all of it.


Understand the Question


Inferences help find answers to specific questions. It is essential to understand the question with precision and accuracy otherwise all the efforts made during reading can go to waste.


List the Applicable Information


After understanding the question, it is better to make a list of all the points from the text that can help you construct an answer for the question being asked.


Locate the Relational Patterns Between the Details


Once you have collected all the necessary details, try to mark the patterns and relations between all those points.


Analyze the Relations and Patterns


The last step is to infer whatever information is needed by analyzing the patterns. This can take you to a plausible answer to the question being asked.


How to Make Inferences


Making inferences about an idea, sentence, a phrase or even a word is something everyone does while reading without even knowing. Making inferences is the technique to use your previous knowledge to guess what will happen next. While reading, one needs to make inferences as it will help to enjoy reading and to make one able to read in between lines. Making inferences is not easy and it is the duty of teachers and parents to teach a child from the very beginning about the ways that can help him or her in making inferences. Here are the most useful and efficient ways to do that:


Reading Carefully


To make inferences, one must read the content carefully to have a full understanding of what is being said. Try to grab the main idea and the message of the content. This will help you in making inferences easily and accurately.


Using Previous Knowledge


Most of the times, using previous knowledge while reading something can make it easy to guess the real meaning of that particular word or phrase. Relying on your previous knowledge to understand the meaning of something in context is a very efficient technique and is likely to help the readers in making correct inferences from the context.


Using Context


Most of the times, the context of the word, phrase or sentence to be inferred is fully explaining its meaning. Therefore, one must read and re-read the context of a phrase carefully till he or she can fully grab some clues that will help him or her to infer the meaning.


Using Thesaurus


To make inferences, it is always advised to keep a thesaurus with you. For the words that cannot be inferred with the help of previous knowledge, use a thesaurus to understand the meaning of that word and then proceed with the other inferencing techniques.


How to Find Inferences from What We Read?


What are Inferences?


Inferencing is a technical part of reading which requires you to understand what the author is implicating in the text. After leaving you some clues, authors presume you to fill in the gaps with your prior knowledge or relevant paragraph details. To do so, the readers have to comprehend the text that an author has written and find the reasons for using inferencing skills.


How to Find Inferences from Reading Text?


Before we actually start to practice inference literature, lets works on understanding the purpose of inferences. The core purpose is to understand the intended meaning of the text the author has written. The more we practice inferencing skills, the better our reading comprehension and world or word knowledge becomes.


Step 1: Finding Keywords or Inference Questions


Look sharply for the keywords like "suggest, imply or infer" in the text where the author expects you to test your reading skill. For instance: "As per the passage, we can precisely infer that". Unlike this, sometimes the author may directly ask you to infer and give reasoning. For example: "According to you, which option would the author likely to agree?


Step 2: Find Clues and Hints


Now that you have a question, it's better to trust your passage content rather than your worldly knowledge to provide reasoning. Look for relevant keywords, dialogues, descriptions, vocabulary and character actions to collect clues for inferencing.


Step 3: Narrow Down the Options


Having multiple clues may get you confused while inferring, thus select the nearest possible option. Narrow down your clues and ideas and then infer the reason after reading and concluding everything.


Step 4: Practice


Practice is a virtue of success. To excel at inferences, you have to work exceptionally on your reading and above-mentioned steps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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