ELA-Infer-F

Make Inferences - Print - Fiction Resources

 * K-2**
 * //[|Duck for President]//**//,//** Doreen Cronin, 2004. This is great for inference because the duck always thinks the grass is greener on the other side. He constantly infers the next job will be easier than his current one. [|Lesson Plan with True/False worksheet]
 *  //[|The Jupiter Stone]//**//,//** by Paul Owen Lewis, ISBN: 1582461074, 2003 Grades K-3 This book is about a stone that looks like Jupiter and its journey. This book has little text, so the reader is forced to make inferences.
 * //[|Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears]//, by Verna Aardema Students will love reading this silly story. This story is suitable for K-3 because of its repetition. It is great for teaching inference because students look at the logical assumptions the animals make as to why the events are happening. It's also great for drawing conclusions and sequencing.[|Lesson Plan]


 * 3-5**
 * //[|Shiloh]//, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Reading Level 3-5 This is a Newberry Award Winner. Students learn to "read between the lines" when Marty doesn't exactly tell his dad the truth, but doesn't out and out lie to him either. [|Lesson Plan]
 * //[|Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears]//, by Verna Aardema Students will love reading this silly story. This story is suitable for K-3 because of its repetition. It is great for teaching inference because students look at the logical assumptions the animals make as to why the events are happening. It's also great for drawing conclusions and sequencing.[|Lesson Plan]


 * 6-8**
 * //Lost and Found (Bluford High Series #1),// Anne Schraff, copyright 2007. The first in a series of seventeen books which address topics relevant to real-life experiences of young adolescent students. In this book, 16 year old Darcy Wills must deal with a stubborn little sister who may be in trouble and a person from her past who tries to become part of her life again. As in all the Bluford High novels, the plot of //Lost and Found// has topics and situations to utilize for teaching students how to make predictions, draw conclusions, and make inferences.
 * // Forged by fire ////, //Sharon Draper, copyright 1998. This novel addresses topics relevant to real-life experiences of children of today’s time. The plot is detailed with situations to utilize for teaching students how to make predictions, draw conclusions, and make inferences. [|Sharon Draper]
 * //Hope was Here//, Joan Bauer, copyright 2000. When Hope and Aunt Addie leave busy New York City for a job in a rural diner in Wisconsin, Hope eepects that she will be bored with the small-town types who visit the Welcome Stairways Diner. But the diner is anything but boring. Students will make inferences and draw conclusions about characters' qualities and actions, based on knowledge of plot, setting, characters' motives, characters' appearances, other characters' responses to a character. [| Lesson Plan]
 * //[|"The Highwayman"]// by Alfred Noyes This poem offers teachers a great opportunity to teach students how to make inferences about the characters and their motivations based on their actions in the poem.


 * E1-E4**