Making Inferences Activity Task Cards Game Reading Passages Inferring Practice

Do your students struggle with making inferences while reading passages of text? This Making Inferences Task Cards Game is the perfect addition to your reading center activities to support your students' practice with inferring meaning! Making inferences from text can be a difficult skill to learn, but this reading game makes practice fun and enjoyable!

This reading center game comes with a colorful game board and 30 game cards for inferring meaning.  Each of these making inferences task cards consists of a short passage to read and a multiple-choice question that requires students to infer. Learning how to make inferences within a game format is sure to keep students engaged.

Included with this Making Inferences Board Game:

✅ Instructions for play

✅ Game board

✅ 30 paragraph game cards with a multiple-choice question

✅ Answers on the backs of the cards

These inference task cards support the Common Core ELA standard: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Using this making inferences reading center game in your classroom is EASY! 

⭐️ It can be played in small groups of 2-4 students.

⭐️ It works well for a pair/group activity.

⭐️ It is PERFECT for literacy or reading centers. 

⭐️ It can be used as a teacher-led activity when working with small groups.  

⭐️ It can even be played as a whole class game with students divided into teams.

Because reading center games are naturally more engaging, they’re truly great to assign to students to play when teachers need time to work with 1-on-1 or with a small group of students.

Reasons to LOVE this reading centers game:

❤️ Your students will be excited to practice inferencing within a game.  

❤️ You can quickly prepare this making inferences game for your reading centers!

❤️ You can re-use this game any time you want to review this reading skill.

✅ Check out the preview to see a sample of this inferences game.

Teachers like you love this game for practicing inferences:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “We used this as a fun activity to wrap up our inferencing practice.  Such an awesome review tool.  It was great listening to the teams argue about what the inference was.  Thank you for this!” - Jacques’s Junction

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My kids loved playing this game in centers. It was easy for them to understand and I loved that it was minimal prep. I really think that it is helping them build their inferencing skills and is perfect for review.” - Samantha R.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Many of my struggling readers have such a hard time with inference!  However, when I introduced and used this game, they were much more engaged, and.....several of them are really beginning to get it!  Thank you!” - Tanya G.

NEW! Need a SELF-GRADING, DIGITAL version to use instead? The passages and questions from this game are also in my Making Inferences Assessments Pack for Google Forms.

Think ahead and save $$ by buying this game as part of this discounted Reading Comprehension Strategies and Skills Games Bundle!

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