5th and 6th Grade Common Core Make Inferences Educational Resources

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

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

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

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

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

Learn about Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, a Chinese-American suffragist, activist, and minister of the early 20th century with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

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

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this concept web to teach your students about how to make inferences.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

As students read R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, use this graphic organizer to track and analyze the book's characters.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students continue reading The Great Fire.

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students begin reading The Great Fire.

Differentiate learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Individualize middle-grade learning experiences with this fun reading response choice board!

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

Hone key reading comprehension strategies with this engaging five-page worksheet!

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

Students read an original two-page story and answer questions to boost essential reading comprehension skills.

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!