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.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

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

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.

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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

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

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.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.