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.

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Readers practice analyzing a character in a work of fiction as they read a passage from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

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.

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.

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

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

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.

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

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.

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

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

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.

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

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 concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

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.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."