Teacher's Toolkit to Guide Students to Infer the Main Idea of NONFICTION

Graphic Organizers to Develop Inferential Thinking

Each of these graphic organizers requires students to cite evidence in the graphic organizer to support Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1:

Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it;

cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Fiction-Based Inference Guides

Nonfiction-Based Inference Guides

Fiction Readings with Inferential Questions

Nonfiction Readings with Inferential Questions

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