Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

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.

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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

This reading comprehension worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," an origin story that offers a whimsical explanation for the elephant's long trunk.

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

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

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

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

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.