Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

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

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

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

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

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.

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

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

This reading worksheet teaches your kid some cool things about computer-generated imagery. She'll read about special effects and practice thinking critically.

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring Character Motivation.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

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.