Making Inferences Pictures Activity
This making inferences pictures activity has 1st to 3rd Grade readers use tool clues to infer which community helper uses them. Includes a record sheet, practice page and answer key.
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Description
This making inferences pictures activity teaches children to look closely, think about what they already know, and figure out something the picture never says out loud. An inference is a smart guess built from clues plus what we know. When a child sees a stethoscope and a box of bandages, they can infer that a doctor uses those things, even though no doctor is in the picture.
How to Use This Activity
Print and cut apart the 8 picture cards and the 8 lettered Who Uses These? cards. Each picture card shows a group of tools, such as a fire hose and helmet or a rolling pin and chef hat. Children lay the word cards face up, pick a picture card, study every clue, and find the community helper who uses those things. On the record sheet they write the matching letter and one clue that helped them decide. A How to Use page gives simple steps, and a 2nd grade practice page asks children to look at four new pictures and fill in the bubble next to the right worker.
What’s Included
- Colorful cover page
- How to Use page with simple steps
- 8 picture cards of tools and gear
- 8 lettered Who Uses These? cards
- Record sheet
- Fill-in-the-bubble practice worksheet
- Answer key for the cards and the practice page
Why This 1st Grade Inference Activity Helps Kids
First, children practice naming the clue before they choose an answer, which is the heart of every inference question on reading tests. Second, the community helper theme uses background knowledge children already have, so even young readers feel successful. Third, writing the clue on the record sheet asks children to explain their thinking, not just guess. This 1st grade inference activity also works well for 2nd and 3rd grade students as a quick review.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use the making inferences pictures activity in a reading center, during a community helpers unit, or as a partner game. Play Job Detective: name one tool out loud and let a partner guess the job. At home, look at a picture book together and ask, What clues tell you who this person is?
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