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What is Inferencing? Inferencing is the ability to draw and connect clues from text, images, and behaviors to reach a conclusion that is not directly stated or shown. People utilize inferencing in more aspects of their lives than simply reading books, and building up a student’s inference skills helps them to improve their reading comprehension, understand behaviors, and develop critical thinking skills that go beyond the classroom. How to Find Inferencing Tools on ReadWorks At ReadWorks, we know that many teachers work on finding the main idea, or identifying themes with their students. The science of reading does tell us that these skills are important, but it also tells us that they aren't skills that transfer easily across texts. It takes practice among many texts. That is why we created the Inferring Question Set Filter. When you search our content with this filter selected, you will find strong texts and question sets to help student scaffold and build inferencing skills among many different types of texts. You can even filter the inferring question sets by author's purpose, main idea, and theme. Utilizing research-based reading comprehension strategies, our text-dependent question sets will have your students reading between the lines in no time, while fostering a deeper understanding of the text and bolstering their reading comprehension.  Notice the circle identifying how to filter ReadWorks content by Inferring Question Sets. How to Teach Inferencing Question sets whether you use an express or full set after a ReadWorks article are a great way to develop students’ metacognitive practice to be a successful reader. They can plan their reading in relation to specific goals, as well as monitor and evaluate their reading as they progress. ReadWorks text-dependent question sets provide carefully scaffolded practice in activating prior knowledge about text structure, inferring, monitoring and clarifying, and questioning. They help readers engage with texts and dig deeply into what they're reading. Early research shows that students benefit from regularly doing our question sets, as their multiple-choice-question correct rate increases as they do more question sets. Inferencing Activities ReadWorks has specific inferring question sets that include questions that provide practice in multiple key reading strategies with a focus on the strategy of inferencing. The following is an example template of a 10 set question set specifically reinforcing inferencing:
You can filter articles and texts by selecting Inferring question sets under Activity Type in our Content Search Engine.  Example of Comprehension Questions along with the text passage and vocabulary activity on ReadWorks. Learn more about all the ReadWorks tools on our Teacher Guide! Please share this blog post with a teacher!
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