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Get your magnifying glasses—it’s time to play text detective. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of reading comprehension and making inferences while learning to correctly label the 5 Ws within a text.

Informational Text: Citing Evidence Like a Detective

Put on your detective hats because it's time for a measurement hunt! In this activity, students search for objects around the classroom that are shorter/longer than the given items. Your kids will have fun hunting for items and drawing what they find.

Classroom Measurement Detective

Critical thinking demands making inferences and having proof. Use this lesson plan with your students to teach how to infer author’s perspective and cite supporting quotes from text. 

Perspective in Text: Whose Voice is Missing?

Learners will solve division problems to follow a sun-seeking cat across 15 states.

Division Detective: Connect the Clues

Become a math detective with this inviting first-grade worksheet!

Crack the Code: Number Names to 20

Students will learn to identify introductory phrases and use them to cite nonfiction texts.

Cite the Text: Introductory Phrases

This colorful worksheet asks your fourth grade geometry detective to practice identifying right triangles.

Identifying Triangles: Right Triangles

Let your fourth grader play triangle detective: can she spot the acute triangles on this worksheet?

Identifying Triangles: Acute Triangles

Turn your fourth grader into a geometry detective! How many degrees is each missing angle in these quadrilaterals?

The Missing Angle: Quadrilaterals

Find the mysterious missing numbers in this engaging division worksheet!

Division Detective: Facts Within 100

Give your students practice with inferences using short fictional texts before asking them to apply the skill to a longer text of their choice.

Inferences in Fictional Texts

It’s time to make an educated guess! In this lesson, your students will practice using their background knowledge and evidence from the text to make inferences in nonfiction pieces about Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.

Inference Detectives

In this excerpt from an upcoming math workbook, your junior detective will make a positive ID on obtuse, acute and right angles.

Laser Angles

Ready for another round of where in the world? Be an international math detective as you solve addition problems to discover the secret location!

Where In The World #3

Using her long division savvy, your child will help Detective Zoey Chase track a notorious criminal in this adventure-filled 5th grade math worksheet.

Division Game: Eastern USA

When students read nonfiction texts, they will need to make inferences using text features and quotes as evidence. Support your students using short texts as practice before diving into more complex materials like textbooks.

Making Inferences in Nonfiction Texts

Time to play detective! Can you describe what happened int his scene, just by looking at the picture? Practice making inferences by looking at context.

Drawing Conclusions

Play detective as you put your geometry skills to the test! This game is a great way to get to know the coordinate plane and practice plotting ordered pairs.

Coordinate Grid Game!

Cesar Chavez is a perfect example of a champion for social justice. Students will refine inference skills by using background knowledge and evidence from the text, while also discovering an important American civil rights activist. 

Inferences in Nonfiction Texts: Cesar Chavez and Farmworker Rights

Give your students practice explaining how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.  With these sports-themed texts, students will make inferences about the author and use text evidence to prove it.

What's the Point?

In this lesson, students are asked to cite the text for evidence as they make an inference in a nonfiction text. It can be taught on its own or used as a pre-lesson to Inferences in Nonfiction Texts: Cesar Chavez and Farmworker Rights.

Inferences and Introductory Phrases

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Introductory Phrases in Inferences

Help your students absorb the details of a text and make inferences about what they read with the strategy of close reading. By reading closely, students will become better able to understand complex themes and nuances in a text.

Close Reading: Introduction

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

State Your Claim

In this worksheet, learners will refer to illustrations to make inferences about which of two lines of text is true.

Making Inferences With Pictures

Making inferences is a key skill to master before going on to read more difficult fictional texts in fifth grade. This lesson helps your students solidify their inference skills with a focus on citing evidence in fictional text.



Making Strong Inferences

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to cite their answers based on inferences they make about a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Colorful Coding.

Citing Inferences

Use this lesson to help your ELs learn character traits and find them in a text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Identifying Character Traits lesson.

Choosing Character Traits

Use this lesson to help your ELs quickly find information on a specific topic by looking for a noun and its pronouns in a nonfiction text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Ecosystems Explained.

Information from Multiple Sources

Your ELs will practice drawing connections between illustrations and relevant text in a story in order to make inferences. This lesson can be a stand-alone resource or it can be paired with the lesson Analyzing Visual Elements.   

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