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.

Have you ever wondered what keeps the moon in orbit? Newton's first law gets a quick introduction, too, in this worksheet for kids. Check it out!

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

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

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.

Read this shortened version of the Momotaro story, then think about what makes a true hero, both in a fairytale and in real life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

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!

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

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

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