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.

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

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.

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

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

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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 concept web to teach your students about how to make 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.

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.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

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

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.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

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

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.

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

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

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

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.