4th - 7th Grade Fiction Make Inferences Resources

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

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

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

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