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

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.

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

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

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.

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

In what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

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 handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

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

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

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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

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

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.