4th - 8th Grade Make Inferences Worksheets

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

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.

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

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.

Introduce readers to the poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

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.

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.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

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

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

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

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

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

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.