Make teaching inferencing a blast with this hands-on Easter inferencing activity that your students are guaranteed to remember. Print out the ready-to-go riddles with recording sheet and anchor chart pieces. Add trinkets into large Easter Eggs and let the fun begin! Students will love to be "inferencing detectives" as they work to solve the riddles. Extend the lesson by incorporating a "What's In My Egg?" inferencing writing activity and craft that students are surely to love.
Prior to teaching this lesson, there a few things that will need to be prepped. First, print off the free inferencing riddles. It will be important that each egg is filled with the correct trinkets to match the Easter inferencing riddles. I used Colorful Baby Chicks, Mini Rainbow Erasers, Dots & Stripes Bouncy Balls, Transparent Pullback Cars, Magic Springs, Crayola Crayons, Charms Lollipops, and Easter Egg Mini Puzzles
Next, print out the free basket labels. Trim them then attach to Bright Round Easter Baskets using Black Twine. Complete the Easter baskets by filling each basket with Colored Grass and the trinket filled Gigantic Plastic Easter Eggs.
Now, it is time to prep the free anchor chart. Print out the anchor chart pieces and trim. I love to use Pacon Heavy-Duty Unruled Anchor Chart Paper because it is large and great quality. It is easy to roll up and pull back out when re-teaching the skill later in the year.
I always attach the title prior to the lesson. All other pieces are attached during the introduction of the lesson by students using an Elmer's Glue Stick. This allows students to be a part of creating the chart. Students are then more likely to reference the chart in the future. Complete the chart by adding a plus sign and simple border using Sharpies. Feel free to add your own writing, definition or student responses to the chart!
Once the inferencing strategy has been explained it's time to practice. The inferencing riddles can be used in whole group, small group, or centers. Since this was the first time my students had been exposed to inferencing riddles, I decided to complete the activity as a whole group.
I had students sit in a circle with all of the baskets in the center. We read one riddle at a time as students wrote their guesses on the matching recording sheet. We also passed each egg around for students to shake lightly.
Once all of the riddles were answered, I re-read each card and then opened the eggs! I was very impressed that many of my students had great guesses for each egg. Some students thought egg #1 had hens inside, which was a fantastic inference! Students truly used their schema and text clues during this activity.
As a fun closing activity, students created this adorable "What's In My Easter Egg?" Inferencing Writing Craft. Head here to see how we created this oh so cute craft while becoming Easter bunny inferencing detectives!
