Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

In this inventive graphic organizer, children will fill in speech and thought bubbles to show how a character's words and thoughts reveal their traits.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Read through this version of The Crane Wife and answer comprehension questions along the way.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.