A free inference anchor chart: clues in the text plus what you already know make an inference, with an example and a sentence frame. For grades 2–6. Print it on one page, or on four pages to tape together as a poster.
Making inferences
An inference is a smart guess the text does not say outright
You work it out from clues.
It has to fit the text.
Clues in the text + what I already know = an inference
Text: Sam grabbed an umbrella and looked at the sky.
I know: people take an umbrella when rain is coming.
Inference: Sam thinks it is going to rain.
Say it this way
I can infer that … because the text says … and I know …
Free at teach.peabody.kids
Making inferences
An inference is a smart guess the text does not say outright
You work it out from clues.
It has to fit the text.
Clues in the text + what I already know = an inference
Text: Sam grabbed an umbrella and looked at the sky.
I know: people take an umbrella when rain is coming.
Inference: Sam thinks it is going to rain.
Say it this way
I can infer that … because the text says … and I know …
Free at teach.peabody.kids
Making inferences
An inference is a smart guess the text does not say outright
You work it out from clues.
It has to fit the text.
Clues in the text + what I already know = an inference
Text: Sam grabbed an umbrella and looked at the sky.
I know: people take an umbrella when rain is coming.
Inference: Sam thinks it is going to rain.
Say it this way
I can infer that … because the text says … and I know …
Free at teach.peabody.kids
A1Making inferences anchor chart · page 1 of 4 · A2 to the right · B1 below
A2 joins this side
10 cm at 100% · between the corner marks 7.5 × 10 in
Making inferences
An inference is a smart guess the text does not say outright
You work it out from clues.
It has to fit the text.
Clues in the text + what I already know = an inference
Text: Sam grabbed an umbrella and looked at the sky.
I know: people take an umbrella when rain is coming.
Inference: Sam thinks it is going to rain.
Say it this way
I can infer that … because the text says … and I know …
Free at teach.peabody.kids
A2Making inferences anchor chart · page 2 of 4 · B2 below · trim the left and top at the marks and lay it over the one before
A1 joins this side
10 cm at 100% · between the corner marks 7.5 × 10 in
Making inferences
An inference is a smart guess the text does not say outright
You work it out from clues.
It has to fit the text.
Clues in the text + what I already know = an inference
Text: Sam grabbed an umbrella and looked at the sky.
I know: people take an umbrella when rain is coming.
Inference: Sam thinks it is going to rain.
Say it this way
I can infer that … because the text says … and I know …
Free at teach.peabody.kids
B1Making inferences anchor chart · page 3 of 4 · B2 to the right · trim the left and top at the marks and lay it over the one before
B2 joins this side
10 cm at 100% · between the corner marks 7.5 × 10 in
Making inferences
An inference is a smart guess the text does not say outright
You work it out from clues.
It has to fit the text.
Clues in the text + what I already know = an inference
Text: Sam grabbed an umbrella and looked at the sky.
I know: people take an umbrella when rain is coming.
Inference: Sam thinks it is going to rain.
Say it this way
I can infer that … because the text says … and I know …
Free at teach.peabody.kids
B2Making inferences anchor chart · page 4 of 4 · trim the left and top at the marks and lay it over the one before
B1 joins this side
10 cm at 100% · between the corner marks 7.5 × 10 in
How to use it
One page: print it for a notebook or a table, or project it while you teach.
A poster: print the four pages at 100% (the 10 cm bar on each page checks it). Each page after A1 says where it goes: trim its left and top edges at the marks, lay it over the page before at the ticks, and tape the back. It makes a poster about 15 by 20 inches.
Make it yours: build the chart with the class first and keep this one as your model, or add the class's own examples on sticky notes.