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Inference and Prediction practice for Reception – Year 6

English · Reading Comprehension · Early Years (EYFS), Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2. Understanding what you read: facts, clues, order and the writer’s choices.

What your child will learn

• Infer characters’ feelings from clues in a story.
• Infer reasons for events using clues in a story.
• Predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far, using clues in the text.
• Discuss the significance of titles: choose a title that fits the whole text and predict content from a title.
• Check that a text makes sense while reading and correct misread words.
• Infer a character’s feelings and motives from her actions, and justify inferences with evidence from the text.

Try some free inference and prediction questions

These are real BrightWorld questions. In the app, every question adapts to your child’s level and comes with hints and worked examples.

How BrightWorld helps with inference and prediction

Children practise inference and prediction at Easy, Medium or Hard, in mixed quizzes, in the Answer Run game and inside story missions. If they get stuck, they get a hint and a worked example; if they’re flying, the questions get harder. Parents see how they’re doing in the parent area.

Related topics

Finding Information Story Order and Summarising Poems, Stories and Authors