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.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

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.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

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

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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 what literary genre does Alice in Wonderland lie? Read this passage and see if you can use the clues in it to decide for yourself.

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."

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.

These worksheets, which cover social studies, reading comprehension and writing, teach kids all about the Great Race of Mercy.

This worksheet features writing prompts to help your kid think analytically about the story of Bridge to Terabithia and get the most out of the book and movie.

Use these vocabulary cards 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.

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences with Sentence Stems.