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

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 read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Learn about one of the most famous composers (and one of the first musicians to be known by only one name), Ludwig van Beethoven, in this biography of his life.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

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

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

Children use their logic skills to look at the images and decide which of two statements describes each one best in this second grade literacy worksheet.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

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.

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

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

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

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

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

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

Explore characters in literature by getting inside of the most famous Alice in Wonderland character's head: Alice herself.

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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.