Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

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

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

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

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

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

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.

Located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. the Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th president.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.

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.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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.

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

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

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