Show the first page of your presentation and tell students they're going to learn about inference. Explain to them that when you infer, you use clues from the story and events that have taken place to come to a conclusion about something or determine what might happen next.
Display a short story for students to read. Read the story to the class or allow the students to read the story. They can read it aloud or read it silently to themselves.
Tell students now they're going to make an inference about what they have read. Show an implicit question based on the text they just finished reading. Remind them that when making an inference, readers use clues and events to infer.
Listen to students responses to the question that was asked. Display the short story again and ask students to find evidence from the story to support their inference. Highlight those clues and evidence using your SMART Board pen.
Repeat the process a few more times. Again, show a short story, read it aloud or allow them to read it. Show questions that require students to infer and then make them find the evidence that helped them reach their conclusion. This time allow them to go to the board to highlight the clues and evidence themselves. For more practice inferring, Readquarium has an online game that can be used as a lesson to teach inference or check student understanding. There are games that require students to infer information from stories about characters, setting and the plot.