Making Inferences Bundle Fiction and Nonfiction 4th and 5th Grades Print and Digital

The Informational Text Unit includes: (Print and Digital)

7 Passages

1. Historical Text: Pizza’s Early History
2. Historical Text: Basketball’s Invention
3. Historical Text: Pony Express Riders
4. Scientific Text: Comets
5. Scientific Text: Grizzly Bears
6. Scientific Text: Gecko Lizards
7. Technical Text: How to Make a Volcano

Two Sets of Task Cards:

32 Picture Inference Task Cards
32 What is it? Inference Task Cards

Activities and Graphic Organizers:

Step by Step Inferences Handout
Inference Question Types Handout/Mini-Poster
Making Inferences Graphic Organizer
Secrets from the Trash Activity (with 32 Task Cards)
Inference Windows Worksheet (clues with flaps to reveal a mystery item)
What’s in Mrs. (or Miss/Ms.) _____________’s Purse (or Mr. ______’s Bag) Activity
Top Secret Inference Bag Homework Activities
5 Question Types Posters
Teacher Notes
Teacher Notes for Digital with LINKS

The Inferences Using Literature Set includes: (Print and Digital)

6 Passages 

1. The Grasshopper and the Ant
2. Turtle and Pigeon
3. The Stonecutter
4. Being Greedy Doesn’t Pay, Anansi
5. The Lost Horse
6. The Story of Arachne

Two Sets of Task Cards:

32 Inference Riddles Task Cards (and student record sheet)
32 Inferences from Pictures Task Cards (and student record sheet)

Activities and Graphic Organizers:

Top Secret Mystery Box Homework
Inference Types Handout
Making Inferences Graphic Organizer
Occupation Inferences Worksheet
Character Inference Windows
Inferences from a Shopping Bag Game (cards, record sheet, and shopping bag tag)
Keys Teacher Notes
Teacher Notes for Digital with LINKS and a step by step explanation of making an assignment in Google Classroom™

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Why you’ll love this resource:

• There are a variety of materials included, from task cards, to games, activities, passages, and graphic organizers.

• Everything comes in both print and digital, so it works well in the classroom, for homeschool, and for distance learning.

• The passages are high interest and include fiction and nonfiction reading.

• The fiction inference set includes Aesop’s Fables, a Greek Myth and folktales from around the world, which are engaging but not always easy to find.

• You can use this resource in so many ways, from reader’s workshop time, guided reading, literacy centers, whole class games, exit slips, SCOOT and scavenger hunts, homework, test prep, and more!

If you’d like to see each unit in more detail, here they are:
Inferences Using Informational Text for 4th/5th Grades
Inferences Using Literature: 3rd – 5th grades

Need more inference resources?
Inference Board Center
Inference Puzzle Center
Famous Americans Inference Task Cards

Looking for other 4th/5th grade resources?
20 Fiction and Nonfiction Centers for 4th/5th Grades
30 Grammar Games for 4th
30 Grammar Games for 5th
Character Education Yearlong Bundle

Thanks so much!
Jenn

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