Teaching students to make inferences has always been a difficult task for me. Mainly because I cannot give them an actual tool to help with this skill, and my students do not always have the background knowledge to make an inference. It really comes down to a lot of modeling and practice. So I have been working with teachers to increase making our thinking visible while making inferences.  I love what we are doing to model and practice this challenging skill. Once a week for a bell ringer, we give the students a picture to glue in their interactive notebook. We encourage them to use a T Chart to write down what they see in the picture and what they know about the subject. Then, they write their inference.