After being so hands on with inferring your students will have a firm understanding of what it is. At this point, it is important to show them how to infer meanings of words within a text. Therefore, students must use context clues. The main thing for students to be successful in this area is to give them “word Power”. I define word power as using words or parts of words you know, to help you figure out tricky words you may be unsure of. This means, students need to have a firm knowledge of prefix and suffixes, they should be exposed to lots of base words. For example Beautiful is easy to understand if you know the word beauty and the definition of the suffix –ful.
This is by far the hardest part of inferring for students to do. There are many resources on the web that have printable context clue cards to practice this skill. One example can be found HERE.
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