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 your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Children follow along the incredible life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to rescue hundreds of other enslaved people.

This short fictional text can be used to help students determine words and phrases the author uses to help the reader figure out the central message of the story.

Learn about facts vs. opinions in this reading comprehension worksheet. Kids will read two sets of text and decide which is fact and which is opinion.

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.

Give your students practice with Reader’s Theater in the wonderful genre of drama. They will read and practice fluency, as well as comprehension.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

Young readers will practice synthesizing information from multiple sources on the same topic in this reading comprehension worksheet.

This excerpt has exactly 100 words and is great reading practice for your little quaterbacks!

Help your students retell a simple fictional text using a paragraph frame for support! In this activity, students will read a short story about a family's camping trip and then summarize it by filling in the blanks.

Children are introduced to a helpful, five-word mnemonic device for remembering what to include in a fiction summary.

Identifying the author’s purpose is as easy as P-I-E with the right mnemonic device!

Using this great template to help with letter writing for kids, encourage your child to flex his imagination as he writes a letter to a friend.

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

In this exercise, your students will compare and contrast two fictional stories with the same characters.

Explore alliteration in poetry by sniffing out repeated sounds in a favorite springtime poem: Casey at the Bat.

Get your third grader in the habit of reading deeper by encouraging him to think about what's going on in this short story and why.

Practice those reading skills with the story of "The Three Little Pigs"! This classic tale provides a great starter for reading comprehension.

Help students build key reading comprehension skills by creating a story map for a book that they read. Students practice retelling, identifying characters, and making connections.

This passage will challenge your 3rd graders to think deeper into the text to strengthen their comprehension skills.

Students will practice using dictionary guide words by matching words to the pages they would appear on.

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

After your students finish reading this story about Leo and how he overcomes his soccer injury, they will answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about the text.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

Learners will review a definition for each type of author's purpose, then sort nine sentences according to these criteria.

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.