Make Inferences Resources : Page 3

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

This graphic organizer will encourage your students to put together all the pieces of a strong inference and help them practice reading comprehension skills.

Your students will use their imaginations to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

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

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

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

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

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

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.

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

Did you know that people used to write whole books by hand? Learn about Gutenberg's printing press, an invention that revolutionized book-making.

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

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

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.

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.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

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

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.

Can a frog really swallow quail shot? Explore exaggeration with this reading exercise on Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

Practice making inferences about stories with the help of this writing organizer.

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

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