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.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

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

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

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

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.

With this reading exercise, students will identify a character’s traits and provide evidence from the text.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

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

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

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.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.