TheLearnDenYear 5 · English
Draw Inferences About Texts
Year 5 learners practise making inferences from a story.
The activities include Develop Inference Skills Using a Fictional text, Make Inferences from a Story, Practise Using Inference Skills in a Fictional text, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
Activities covered
- Develop Inference Skills Using a Fictional text
- Make Inferences from a Story
- Practise Using Inference Skills in a Fictional text
- Understand Clues in a Story
- Use Inference Skills
- Use Inference Skills in a Fictional Text
Checked learning resources
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Year 5 Inference: Understanding and Answering Inference Questions Video Lesson
Twinkl · Video · Account may be required
Exact Year 5 video models combining textual clues with prior knowledge to infer character feelings, motives, relationships and unstated meaning.
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Year 5 Inference and Understanding Reading Skills PowerPoint 1
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Year 5 teaching PowerPoint models evidence-based inference from fiction and asks pupils to explain what story clues imply.
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UKS2 Improving Reading Skills with Inference Iggy Activity Pack
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Upper-KS2 passages and questions practise evidence-based inference about character and meaning.
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Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Project Gutenberg · Teaching · Opens on the provider website
Exact public-domain novel supplies the original text for checking character and plot inferences against E. Nesbit’s wording.
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Firebird: Guided Reading Y5 Unit Pack - Planning, Plans, Comprehension, independent activities, teaching notes, Russia,
Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website
Year 5 English resource matched to making inferences from a story.
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World War II eBook Guided Reading Y5 Unit Pack - Planning, History, Hitler, Churchill, Chamberlain, evacuee, evacuation,
Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website
Year 5 English resource matched to making inferences from a story.
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Comprehension
BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website
Year 5 English resource matched to making inferences from a story.