Build confident, skilled readers with this Making Inferences Bundle featuring both fiction and nonfiction inferencing activities! With 12 high-interest passages, clear inferencing questions, and ready-to-use worksheets, this bundle gives your students the practice they need to make strong, text-based inferences across multiple genres and content areas.

Whether you’re teaching myths, fables, legends, realistic fiction, science topics, or social studies concepts, this bundle provides everything you need to teach, model, and reinforce one of the most challenging comprehension skills: making inferences.

Included in this Download…

Fiction Inferencing Passages (6 Short Stories)

• Nature’s Medicine (realistic fiction)
• How Bear Lost His Tail (myth)
• The Fox and the Goat (fable)
• The Trojan Horse (legend)
• The Lantern in the Fog (realistic fiction)
• The Clockmaker’s Secret (legend)

Bonus Activities:

• Practice Making Inferences (mystery picture review)
• Practice Making Inferences with Pictures

Nonfiction Inferencing Passages (6 Informational Texts)

• Simple Machines
• The Predator-Prey Relationship
• Native American Cultures
• Weather Patterns
• Regions of the United States
• Why We Have Day and Night

⭐ Every passage includes multiple-choice and open-ended questions that require students to use text evidence and combine it with background knowledge (schema) to make logical inferences.

A Simple Way to Teach a Tricky Skill

Teaching students how to infer can feel overwhelming, especially when working with different reading levels and varied background knowledge. These ready-to-use passages take the stress out of planning. Each activity walks students through the inferencing process step-by-step, helping them connect text clues with what they already know so they can explain their thinking clearly and confidently.

These Activities Are Perfect For…

• Whole-group lessons
• Small-group instruction
• Independent inferencing practice
• Test prep
• Close reading lessons
• Early finishers
• Extension activities
• Intervention groups
• Sub plans
• Integrating reading with science and social studies content (nonfiction set)

Why Teachers Love This Bundle

Teachers appreciate how easy it is to use—just print and teach! The passages are engaging, the inferencing questions are purposeful, and the structure gives students the support they need without overwhelming them.

Students will learn to:

• Use clues from the text
• Combine schema + evidence
• Make clear, logical inferences
• Explain their reasoning using text evidence

The Best Part

With both fiction and nonfiction resources in one bundle, you get a complete inferencing toolkit you can use all year long. Whether you need a quick mini-lesson, targeted small-group work, homework, or a full inferencing unit, this bundle saves you time and keeps students motivated.

In this one resource, you can…

• build confidence, comprehension, and critical-thinking skills
• have 12 ready-to-use fiction and nonfiction inferencing activities with questions
• give students meaningful practice with one of the most challenging reading strategies—inferring

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

RL.4.1

RL.5.1

RL.6.1

RI.4.1

RI.5.1

RI.6.1

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