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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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

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

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.

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!

Practice making story comparisons and inferences with the help of this useful organizer.

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

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

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.

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

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