Comprehension Skill Cards - Making Inferences (RL 3.0-4.5)

Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!

Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest, one-paragraph reading passages were specifically written to aid students in “Making an Inference.”

SPECIFIC SKILL: INFERENCE

Making an inference is one of the more challenging comprehension skills. Students must add their own knowledge and experience to what has been read. It’s a higher-level, critical-thinking skill. Making an inference is basically making an educated guess based on what you know and what you’ve read.

READING PASSAGES

Each card has four, short, one-paragraph reading passages. The reading passages are written in such a way that students should be able to make an educated guess about what the text infers.

The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.

Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.

QUESTIONS

After each paragraph, there is a multiple-choice question that asks: Which of these statements is probably true? To choose the correct answer, students will need to decide which answer makes the most sense to them based on the details given in the paragraph.

Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.

DETAILS

Contents Include:

16 Story Cards

Printable Answer Strip Template

Teacher’s Guide

Answer Key

Comprehension Skills Progress Chart