Boost your students' reading comprehension with this Making Inferences Passages resource, designed for 1st to 5th graders. Featuring differentiated reading passages and targeted worksheets, this pack helps students practice drawing inferences and supporting their ideas with textual evidence. Perfect for reading centers, explicit instruction, small group activities, and intervention, this engaging resource builds essential critical thinking skills while encouraging deeper engagement with the text.
 
Key Features:
5 Engaging Stories: Each story is crafted to capture students' interest, keeping them focused and eager to infer meaning from the text.
Differentiated Levels: Every passage comes with two differentiated versions, making it adaptable for varying reading abilities within your classroom.
Comprehension Questions: Focused on making inferences and supporting them with clear evidence from the story, fostering critical thinking and deeper understanding.
Flexible Use: Ideal for explicit instruction, reading centers, guided reading groups, small group work, or intervention.
 
How It Works:
Read and Infer: Students read the passage and then complete the Making Inferences activity by interpreting implied meanings in the text.
Support with Evidence: Passages are purposefully written with ambiguity, challenging students to make thoughtful inferences and support their answers with evidence from the story.
 
Why It’s Effective:
This resource promotes deeper engagement with texts by encouraging students to read between the lines, make inferences, and justify their conclusions with evidence. By practicing these skills, students develop stronger comprehension, improve critical thinking, and become more confident in analyzing text. This process also fosters self-assessment, making it a valuable tool for both students and educators.