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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

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.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

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

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

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

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

Students will draw conclusions about texts by combining what they learn from a text and their background knowledge.

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

Introduce young learners to Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and all of the Seven Summits, with this worksheet.

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

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

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.

Guide your students through the process of looking for text evidence and making inferences about the setting in this excerpt from The Secret Garden.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.