Inferences & Drawing Conclusions: Grades 4-8: 35 Reading Passages for Comprehension

I teach 6th grade and bought this book to use as a quick daily skill builder at the beginning of reading class. I also have other books in the series. Each week, we focus on one of the concepts (there are two concepts per book) and I give my class an exercise from that concept each day. They are quick and easy, but effective in developing important reading skills for non-fiction passages. The passages are well written and interesting. My students enjoy reading them and we are all learning new information, vocabulary, and facts about a variety of topics. The only thing, I would like to change is the answer key. There are only answers for the multiple choice questions. It would be nice to have sample answers for the fill in questions. You can figure them out, but sample answers save time. I would recommend these to any busy teacher (or homeschooling parent) looking to practice important reading skills in a fun, easy, and effective way.

The book is organized into two sections, one has approximately sixteen inference activities and the other has a similar number of "drawing conclusions" activities. The activities are valuable because they focus on these skills, but a downside is that the questions are very simple. This is helpful at the start of the teaching of the skill, but later it becomes a bit too easy. It would be awesome if there were a few more levels for the questions and query section. Still, it is a great resource for review and reference.

I originally bought this book for children to work on during guided reading, but the tasks are really quick to do. However, I now use it as a teacher led prompt for discussions in my guided reading sessions and it has been a huge success!

Great tool for my son’s Language Disorder. Very good exercises that test and challenge their reading skills.

This product is very good. It is student's friendly, easy to work with.