Teaching inferencing

This week my 3rd grade special education students and I have been practicing the skill of inferencing. We used the book Erandi’s Braids as our anchor text, and I created this anchor chart to go along with the book. I found this book to be an engaging one for teaching inferencing. Students wrote their inferences on post-it-notes and got to put them up on the chart.

Prior to reading Erandi’s Braids together, we played a game to introduce the skill of inferencing by looking through my backpack and making inferences about why I have particular things in my backpack. I found this picture on Pinterest that inspired me.

I also found some great worksheets online to reinforce the skill through mini-passages. These worked nicely as quick assessments to check for understanding. You can check them out here:

http://yasecondgrade.wikispaces.com/file/view/MakingInferencesSheet1.pdf

http://yasecondgrade.wikispaces.com/file/view/MakingInferencesSheet2.pdf

http://www.k12reader.com/subject/inference/

You can also check out my Pinterest board on inferencing for more inspiration: http://www.pinterest.com/kissinger86/inferencing/