Teaching Inferences
As SLPs, we work on inferences frequently. I’m going to detail how I go about teaching them. The first thing I start with is my Inferring Teaching Binder. Inferring requires students to use background knowledge, as well as whatever information is presented to them (either in a picture or a story).
The binder begins by teaching what an inference is. It then moves to to school, home, food, and animal inferences. For these, the student is given a short description and has to decide what item is being described. They then move on to making inferences about pictures. From here, they make inferences about 2-3 sentence stories, then 3-5 sentence stories, longer stories and finally nonfiction passages.
I made seasonal inference (spring, winter, fall) cards that also focus on Tier 2 vocabulary. This resource also works on basic inferences.
Other resources that I use:
Making Inferences YouTube video
Snack Attack short YouTube film
Hope this helps!