Help your Grade 3 students master making inferences the way RL.3.1 and RI.3.1 actually ask for it: answer questions about a text and point right to the words that prove the answer. This complete unit teaches students to be reading detectives who find clues, add what they already know, and make a smart guess.

Students learn that an inference is a text clue plus what they already know, how to find clues that authors show instead of tell, and how to answer questions with proof. The keystone Clue + Guess Statement builds all three parts of a strong grade-3 answer - the guess, the clue as proof, and what you already know - into one reusable sentence students can use with any text.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

• 52-slide Google Slides / PowerPoint deck, 10 lessons, with full speaker notes
• Worksheet 1: inference vocabulary, be a detective, find the clue, quick check (2 pages)
• Worksheet 2: clue plus what you know, answer with proof (2 pages)
• Worksheet 3: independent inference, Clue + Guess Statement, self-check (2 pages)
• Exit ticket with an original unseen passage and a four-task assessment
• 4-point assessment rubric with teaching notes and differentiation guidance

CCSS STANDARDS

RL.3.1 and RI.3.1 - Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers

All passages are original - not recycled public-domain filler.