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

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

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

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

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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.

Prepare students for reading The Great Fire by facilitating a picture walk through the first chapters’ images, pictures, and maps.