Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

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.

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

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

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

Little brothers and sisters can be annoying sometimes, but that's never an excuse to waste a perfectly good cupcake.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

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

Located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. the Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th president.

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.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Evidence + reasoning = an inference! This helpful tool will help your students add up the pieces to make strong inferences as they read.

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

In this biography worksheet, children discover the challenges Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor faced in her childhood, and read about how she used those obstacles to become a good lawyer and judge.

In this retelling of The Crystal Heart, a Vietnamese folk tale, kids will put themselves in the shoes of the main character and write a simple song!

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.

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

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

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.

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues 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.