Backpack Mystery Inference Riddles

Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD

Subjects: ela

Grades: 13,1,2

Description: This deck is perfect for a fun, beginning of the year comprehension lesson. Students will get to be detectives as they use the clues and their schema(prior knowledge) to infer the answer. Making inferences can be difficult for young students and riddles are a perfect way to begin that important comprehension skill. The short clues from the riddles and the pictures help give support to beginning readers. This deck is perfect for Back to School and the beginning of the year. Students will infer from the clues what item is in the backpack. Students will need to read the clues carefully because some of the clues are very similar! Are they smart enough to not be tricked? Teachers can play the deck whole group with younger students. The class can read the clues together and then infer what the item is. This gives the teacher time to model his or her thinking as they make an inference. This deck lends itself to great discussions and questioning. Students always love being detectives and using the clues to solve the inference mystery.