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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

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.