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

Making Inferences to Interpret Fiction

Not all reading comprehension questions are created equal: some are easily answered by reading the text, while others require looking beyond the text to make inferences. This worksheet teaches students how to ask both kinds of questions as they read.

Asking Deeper Questions in Fiction Texts

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

Inferences & Evidence

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

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

After-Reading Response Choice Board: Fiction Text

Use this exercise to evaluate a fiction text and support judgments with evidence.

Evaluate a Text: What Do You Think?

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

During-Reading Response Choice Board: Fiction Text

Give students a chance to engage with a classic science fiction story while practicing crucial reading comprehension skills!

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Youth” by Isaac Asimov

Popular fiction throughout the ages colors the way people speak. In this short lesson, students will read a myth and non-fiction paragraph in order to identify and define words that come from mythology.

Myths and Man

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.

The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz

After reading Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>, students make comparisons to the true story on which the novel was based.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Fact vs. Fiction

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

Make a Mental Picture

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

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 2

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.

Making Connections with Texts Concept Web

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Visualize the Scene

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

The Crab that Played with the Sea

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

Tracking Character Traits

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

Reading Between the Lines

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

Inference Task Cards

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

Story Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions

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

After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Determining a Character's Motivation

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

Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Weird, Wild Weather: Lightning 

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

Informational Reading Comprehension: Biography of Ellen Ochoa

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

Making Inferences Graphic Organizer

Encourage thoughtful discussion after students read chapters 19&ndash;23 of Suzanne Collins&rsquo;s <em>The Hunger Games</em> with this helpful discussion guide!&nbsp;

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Discussion Guide #5

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

It Says...I Say...And So

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

Organize Your Inference

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

Making Inferences: Courageous Leaders Part 1

Children will read an excerpt from Stevenson's book, then respond to a reading comprehension and a creative writing prompt.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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