Fairytale Inferencing

This trimester my reading students will be expected to read grade level text and determining inferences. For my students who are challenged by the reading process, it can be a struggle to motivate them to try targeted skills like inferencing about a story. I thought a wonderful way to introduce the skill of inferencing would be to practice with some classic fairytales to ramp up the enthusiasm.

 First we laid out pictures and objects to get the students inferring:

After the students were done looking at pictures and/or objects, they wrote down what each story was and then justified why they thought their answer was correct.

It was a hit. The students loved moving through stations and getting to explain their answers. You can get the picture posters and answer sheet at our TPT store here.