Inference HS

 Updated July 2025

Teach Inference with Confidence—Even for Struggling Readers!
The Reading Inference Lessons are expertly designed for students with moderate to severe disabilities who participate in alternate assessments. Created to support instruction around the Inference reading standard, this resource supports students in citing textual evidence and making inferences from both literary and informational texts.

✅ Standards-Based Learning Made Accessible

These lessons directly support mastery of key skills:

• Identifying explicit details in a passage

• Drawing logical inferences from text and visuals

• Citing two relevant pieces of evidence

• Differentiating literary vs. informational text

Each lesson includes:

• Symbol-supported reading passages

• Scaffolded comprehension questions

• Sentence frames for constructed responses

• Text + picture-based inferencing tasks

• Multiple response modes (point, look, speak)

📦 What’s Included:

• 6 complete lesson sets (Days 1–6), each with:

  • Pre-reading visual prompts

  • Comprehension questions

  • Evidence-based multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank tasks

  • Genre identification

• 15 short inference stories in an engaging chapterbook format

• Text Detective activity cards for inference practice

• Teacher’s Guide with answer key, accommodations, and extension suggestions

🧠 Built for Diverse Learners

Whether your students are verbal or nonverbal, readers or emerging communicators, these lessons provide:

• Sentence starters

• Visual supports

• Differentiated answer modes

• Repetitive routines for success

Some instructional text and visual elements on this page were generated or adapted with the assistance of AI technology (OpenAI’s ChatGPT), and reviewed by SpecialEdSimplified for accuracy and alignment with instructional goals.

🔒 Please Note: This product is for single classroom use only. If multiple teachers will be using this resource, please purchase additional licenses. 

These activities are based on Common Core Standards. Price and Willoughby, LLC make no guarantees regarding student test performance.