Year 1 Inferencing Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Help Year 1 students develop inferencing skills by combining text clues, picture clues and prior knowledge. Students practise explaining their thinking with the sentence stem “I think … because …” while building reading and listening comprehension.

What's Included

• 17-page unit plan PDF
• Editable 13-slide PowerPoint presentation
• Editable 10-question PowerPoint quiz (22 slides)
• Colour Making Inferences classroom display poster
• Two games and activities: Clue Trail and Inference Match-Up
• Five black-and-white worksheets
• Inference Check assessment
• Worksheet and assessment answer pages
• A4 landscape five-level rubric

Learning Focus

• Use text clues, picture clues and prior knowledge to make sensible inferences
• Explain thinking with evidence
• Respond to short written, visual and oral prompts
• Build reading comprehension, listening comprehension and discussion skills

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and modelling, then reinforce learning through guided discussion, games, worksheets and the final assessment. The included editable PowerPoint files make it easy to adapt examples for your class.

Formats: PDF and editable PowerPoint. Answer pages are included where meaningful.

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