Inference Activities - Making Inferences in Text Messages Reading Assignments
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Inference Activities - Making Inferences in Text Messages Reading Assignments is a creative bundle of activities designed to help your students improve their inferential thinking. Students will read six text message conversations that require students to use their inference skills to understand. Students will examine details from the text messages to make inferences about the speakers, their traits, their relationship to each other, their location, and what they are discussing!
Prompting questions are provided to help guide students' inferences. Students must infer information from the texts based on their background knowledge and demonstrate what evidence led them to make that inference. The resource also includes blank options for students to create their own text message conversations!
What's Included in These Text Message Inference Activities:
Prompting questions are provided to help guide students' inferences. Students must infer information from the texts based on their background knowledge and demonstrate what evidence led them to make that inference. The resource also includes blank options for students to create their own text message conversations!
What's Included in These Text Message Inference Activities:
➡️ Teacher Instructions: The included teacher instructions will provide all the details you need to successfully implement these inference activities in your class so that your students can start successfully making inferences.
➡️ 6 Text Message Inference Assignments: Use these 6 assignments with text message conversations that students must examine. The inference activities include prompting questions which allow students to make inferences from the provided text message conversations. They will also provide evidence to support the inferences they make.
➡️ Text Message Inference Assignments Answer Keys: For each inference assignment, a sample answer key is provided. Of course, when it comes to inferencing, there can be different answers as responses are based on students' individual background knowledge, but the sample answer keys show the most common inference that will be made with a detailed model response for easy class review!
➡️ Text Message Inference Slideshow Answer Keys: Make reviewing the answers to these assignments a breeze with this ready-to-use teacher slideshow. Each slide provides a sample response for each of the prompting questions for each of the inference assignments!
➡️ Text Message Inference Blank Assignments: After students have examined the pre-written text messages, allow them to try their hand at writing their own! Students will write text message conversations that require others to make inferences to understand. Once completed, students can share their assignments with their partners to complete! Two blank template options are provided.
What Teachers Are Saying About These Text Message Inference Activities:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this! Students will clearly see that they make inferences every day without even realizing it!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students enjoyed this resource as an alternative to typical passages. In keeping with the time and technology of today, the students really enjoyed this. It also opened up the door about how text messages can be misinterpreted and how people infer tone and voice in texts.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved using this resource! It was very clear and engaging, but also had a higher level of rigor that was good for challenging my students. It didn't take much time to prepare, and it was easy to use in a time crunch!
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