Need to Improve Inferencing in Your Students? Try This Visual and Interactive App for Improving Inferencing Skills

Explore tools like Inference Pics for teaching and practicing these skills with visuals and cues, benefiting learners of all ages

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For children and adults, inferencing skills are needed everywhere. Whether it is interpreting the facial expression of a friend or partner, figuring out the motives behind a co-worker’s action, or interpreting your own reasons for doing something, we are constantly using inferencing in our daily lives.

Compound the daily use of this skill with the need for students to infer in listening and reading comprehension and the challenge is laid out for students as young as 2nd grade.

The increased rigor of curricula requires students to use inferencing skills to answer “why” questions, prediction questions, and display reasoning skills. It is challenging for younger children to use these skills without cueing from teachers and therapists.

When an adult suffers a brain injury, the difficulty can be in comprehending situations and furthermore, verbally expressing what is happening and “why.” In many ways, inferencing requires looking for “clues” and interpreting information…