Inferences. 4th Grade ELA Worksheets and Study Guides.

◂English Language Arts Worksheets and Study Guides Fourth Grade. Inferences

Activity Lesson

Inferences

The resources above cover the following skills:

General Reading Processes

Students will use a variety of strategies to understand what they read (construct meaning).

Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)

Survey and preview the text by examining features such as the title, illustrations, photographs, charts, and graphs

Make predictions and ask questions about the text

Use strategies to make meaning from text (during reading)

Make, confirm, or adjust predictions

Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)

Identify and explain what is not directly stated in the text by drawing inferences

Draw conclusions or make generalizations about the text

Confirm, refute, or make predictions and form new ideas

Comprehension of Informational Text

Develop comprehension skills by reading a variety of self-selected and assigned print and non-print informational texts, including electronic media

Read, use, and identify the characteristics of functional documents such as sets of directions, science investigations, atlases, posters, flyers, forms, instructional manuals, menus, pamphlets, rules, invitations, recipes, advertisements, other functional documents

Identify and use text features to facilitate understanding of informational texts

Use graphic aids such as illustrations and pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches, cartoons, maps (key, scale, legend, graphs, charts/tables, and diagrams, other graphic aids encountered in informational texts

Use informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation key, transition words, boxed text

Determine important ideas and messages in informational texts

State and support main ideas and messages

Draw conclusions and inferences and make generalizations and predictions from text

Comprehension of Literary Text

Use text features to facilitate understanding of literary texts

Identify and explain how informational aids such as introductions and overviews, materials lists, timelines, captions, glossed words, labels, numbered steps, bulleted lists, footnoted words, pronunciation keys, transition words, end notes, works cited, other information aids encountered in informational texts contribute to meaning