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.

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.

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

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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!

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

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

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.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

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

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 will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

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

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

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.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

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

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

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

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

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

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

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

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.

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