Inferencing Skill Strips®

Inferencing Skill Strips® help students develop logic, problem-solving, and early literacy skills.

Inferencing Skill Strips® provide a structured, hands-on way to strengthen critical thinking and reasoning abilities. Through carefully designed prompts and engaging visuals, this card set supports students in learning to analyze information, recognize relationships, and apply logical thinking strategies—skills essential for academic success and everyday problem-solving.

What makes this inferencing card set so effective?

• Cards offer 240 prompts to support repeated practice.
  
• Targets four core logic and reasoning skills:
  
  • Determining cause and effect
    
  • Identifying items with specific attributes
    
  • Comparing and contrasting using Venn diagrams
    
  • Sequencing events with time-order words
    
• Features three levels of difficulty in each skill area, making it easy to tailor instruction to student abilities.
  
• Provides answer keys and game ideas to support flexible use in small groups, one-on-one sessions, or independent learning.
  
• Comes neatly packaged in a sturdy storage box for easy organization and transport.
  

Why this learning approach works so well

• Visual supports paired with logical reasoning prompts help students engage multiple areas of the brain.
  
• Clear, scaffolded levels of difficulty allow for differentiated instruction and gradual skill development.
  
• Encourages active participation through game-based activities and interactive problem-solving tasks.
  
• Reinforces early literacy skills, as inferencing supports comprehension, sequencing, and analytical thinking.
  

Who are the Inferencing Skill Strips® helpful for?

This card set targets reasoning, inferencing, and literacy development in students in grades 1 and up. Inferencing Skill Strips® is an educational resource for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents. Its versatility makes this card set great for various learning environments, including small or large groups in the classroom, in one-on-one speech therapy sessions, or at home.

Why Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), special educators, teachers, and parents love this inferencing card set:

• They include great visuals that are helpful for autistic students, especially those who need sentence carriers in order to engage in conversation. 
• The different categories within the skills strip activity and game idea help to make using them more fun! 
• It really gets students to think! They have to look at the picture, answer the question, or say what comes next. The cards are very versatile and can be used for many ages and levels. 
• These skill strips are handy to take from class to class for inclusion language services. The cards target skills the students are learning in class but in a different way. It promotes carryover skills. The students love using dry-erase markers to circle the answers (dry-erase markers are not included, but the cards are slick, so dry-erase markers easily wipe off).

Inferencing Skill Strips® includes:

• 120 double-sided photo cards (8½"x 3¾")
• 240 prompts
• Three levels of difficulty in each skill area
• Four skill areas
• Game ideas
• Answer keys
• Boxed

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