Inferencing Activities Riddles & Passages for Making Inferences in Kindergarten

Looking for easy inferencing activities for kindergarten? These simple passages are a perfect tool for kindergarten and first grade students! Making inferences will be your favorite time of the day while students notice text details and sharpen their inferencing skills.

This comprehensive package includes a variety of riddles and passages specifically created for kindergarteners to practice making inferences. With a focus on critical thinking and reading comprehension, this resource offers a fun and interactive way for children to enhance their inferencing abilities.

Each activity in this set is carefully written to provide students with opportunities to analyze and draw conclusions from context clues, allowing them to make inferences and predictions based on the information provided. By engaging in these inferencing exercises, children strengthen their reading skills and develop their ability to think critically and make logical connections.

The included riddles and passages cover a variety of topics, from school to seasonal topics, even social studies, science, and holidays. The diverse content ensures that children are exposed to various contexts, helping them build a strong foundation in inferencing.

Your students will look forward to hearing and solving the riddle each day. Additionally, you can target other skills like sight words, phonics focus, and phonemic awareness! Your class will love the riddle of the day!

In each month of inference riddles you will find:

• 20 Original Riddles of the Day with the answers
• A printable PDF Version and Image files
• You can use the image files to embed in your interactive whiteboard
• Full color and black/white images are included if you wish to print the riddles out
• Seesaw Preloaded Activity slides. Just click to add.

Making Inferences in September Riddle of the Day Themes:

• School Supplies Riddles
• School Subjects Riddles
• Lunch Items Riddles
• Colors Riddles

Making Inferences in October Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Fire safety Riddles
• Halloween-ish (spiders, bats, candy corn, then two Halloween things) Riddles
• Pumpkin facts Riddles
• Shapes (2D shapes) Riddles

Making Inferences in November Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Thanksgiving Riddles
• Fall Things Riddles
• Family members Riddles
• What season am I? Riddles
• Nocturnal animals Riddles

Making Inferences in December Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Hibernating Animals Riddles
• Cookie baking Riddles
• Gingerbread man characters Riddles
• Holiday symbols Riddles

Making Inferences in January Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Parts of a snowman Riddles
• Winter things Riddles
• Arctic Animals Riddles
• Winter Games Riddles
• January Celebrations (Martin Luther King, Jr. and 100th day) Riddles

Making Inferences in February Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Community Helpers Riddles
• Space Riddles
• February celebrations (Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, 100th Day) Riddles
• Our body (heart, lungs, muscles, brain, bones) Riddles

Making Inferences in March Riddle of the Day Themes:

• 5 senses Riddles
• Weather Riddles
• What plants need and plants Riddles
• Plant helpers Riddles

Making Inferences in April Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Helping the earth -Earth Day Riddles
• Farm Riddles
• Oviparous Animals (guess what is in the egg) Riddles
• Animal Habitats Riddles

Making Inferences in May Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Zoo Animals Riddles
• Insects Riddles
• Life Cycles Riddles
• Ocean Animals Riddles

Making Inferences in June Riddle of the Day Themes:

• Sports Riddles
• Summer things Riddles
• At the beach Riddles
• Going camping Riddles

Would you like to see these inferencing riddles in action?

• Fun Classroom Riddles For Kindergarten To Teach Text Details And Inferring

How to use these inferencing riddles in the classroom:

Many years ago, I incorporated the Riddle of the Day into my daily routine. This is what it looked like back then:

1. Each morning, when my students walked in, I would have a riddle written out and waiting for them on chart paper.
2. As my students trickled in, I read the riddle to them.
3. Students would then take a scrape of paper (small 2” x 2” paper from the recycle bin) and draw a picture for what they thought the answer was.
4. Students would fold up their answers and place them in a plastic bag, but you can use a cup.
5. After our pledge, I would read the riddle again and I would begin to tally mark the guesses.
6. We would then count the tally marks and write the numerals. You can have a quick discussion about more/less, how many more crayons than chalk… You can even graph your data.
7. Next, we would start to read the riddle again while digging into the clues.
8. As we read each line, we think If that was a good clue and if we should cross out any guesses.
9. Usually, we are left with a few possible answers. We look at the initial sounds to determine which was the correct one.
10. We also return to the poem and underline the words that helped us the most.
11. Over time, students will begin to pay attention to the text clues…plus it is fun!

TIP: You can also go back to this riddle and look for certain letters, words, rhyming words, 2 syllable words… the possibilities are endless. It would make a fun center activity too!