Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- (-) All subject categories (716)
- English (150)
- Literature (102)
- Reading (99)
- Language (49)
- Prose (45)
- Drama (41)
- Spoken English (39)
- Speaking tasks (37)
- Debates and discussions (25)
- Modern prose (17)
- Modern drama (16)
- Shakespeare for key stage 3 (15)
- Poetry (13)
- Character study (11)
- Anthology poetry (8)
- 19th-century prose (6)
- Role play (6)
- Speeches and presentations (5)
- Themes (5)
- Understanding the plot (5)
- Arguments and persuasive texts (2)
- Diversity and change (2)
- Personal response (2)
- Reading skills (2)
- Understanding a prose text (2)
- Writing for purpose and audience (2)
- Writing skills (2)
- Independent reading (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Language change (1)
- Language development (1)
- Language in action (1)
- Setting and mood (1)
- Textual variations and representations (1)
- Unseen poetry (1)
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (245)
- William Shakespeare (28)
- William Shakespeare (25)
- Post-1900 (16)
- An Inspector Calls (9)
- J.B. Priestley (9)
- Othello (6)
- Othello (6)
- Fiction (5)
- Romeo and Juliet (5)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4)
- Charles Dickens (3)
- Fiction (3)
- Much Ado About Nothing (3)
- Pre-1900 (3)
- Tragedy (3)
- About a Boy (2)
- Angela Carter (2)
- Eva Smith (2)
- F.E Higgins (2)
- Frankenstein (2)
- Gothic (2)
- John Boyne (2)
- John Boyne (2)
- Lloyd Jones (2)
- Macbeth (2)
- Macbeth (2)
- Mary Shelley (2)
- Mister Pip (2)
- My Last Duchess (2)
- Nick Hornby (2)
- Oliver Twist (2)
- Roald Dahl (2)
- Roald Dahl (2)
- Robert Browning (2)
- Robert Browning (2)
- Robert Swindells (2)
- The Black Book of Secrets (2)
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2)
- The Tempest (2)
- 1 (1)
- 3 (1)
- 14 (1)
- 15 (1)
- 16 (1)
- 17 (1)
- 18 (1)
- 19 (1)
- 19th century (1)
- 20 (1)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1)
- Animal Farm (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- Anne Fine (1)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1)
- A Room With a View (1)
- Arthur Miller (1)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1)
- Brian Friel (1)
- Charles Dickens (1)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- Comedy (1)
- Daljit Nagra (1)
- E.M. Forster (1)
- Frank Cottrell Boyce (1)
- George Orwell (1)
- Hamlet (1)
- Harper Lee (1)
- Heritage (1)
- Ian McEwan (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- John Steinbeck (1)
- Khaled Hosseini (1)
- London (1)
- Marcus Sedgwick (1)
- Margaret Atwood (1)
- Of Mice and Men (1)
- Owen Sheers (1)
- Richard III (1)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1)
- Singh Song! (1)
- Stone Cold (1)
- Tennessee Williams (1)
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1)
- The Bloody Chamber (1)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1)
- The Child in Time (1)
- The Crucible (1)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (1)
- The Kite Runner (1)
- The Merchant of Venice (1)
- The Prelude (Extract from) (1)
- Theresa Breslin (1)
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1)
- The Tulip Touch (1)
- Thomas Hardy (1)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1)
- Translations (1)
- Twelfth Night (1)
- Whispers in the Graveyard (1)
- White Teeth (1)
- William Blake (1)
- William Wordsworth (1)
- Willy Russell (1)
- Wise Children (1)
- World War One (1)
- Zadie Smith (1)
Resource type
Exam board
Inference
What are inference skills?
Inference skills are a type of thinking skill that enables you to make guesses, assumptions and predictions based on prior knowledge. To be able to draw inferences is a higher-order skill in reading comprehension and teaching inference is an important part of reading instruction. The inference process begins in the early years where young learners are asked questions about picture books
Reading comprehension resources to develop inference skills
Our collection of worksheets, PowerPoints and reading comprehension texts includes inference tasks on character traits, inference questions based on biographies of historical figures and quizzes to develop and improve inferencing skills.
For more resources to develop reading comprehension strategies, see our main comprehension page. You might also like our comprehension teaching packs: Reading at KS1, Comprehension at lower KS2, Comprehension at upper KS2, Reading SATs practice for KS2 and Raising reading skills. With clear links to National Curriculum objectives, they each include a range of text extracts, SATs-style inference questions and reading strategies to embed essential reading comprehension skills.