5th - 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.

Students will read an excerpt from the classic adventure story White Fang by Jack London before answering comprehension questions about the text.

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

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

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

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

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

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.

Explore the physics at play in roller coasters with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

Read up on the real-life Saint Nicholas, a man who did some good deeds way back in the day, and see what similarities he shares with Santa.

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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

Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage! 

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

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