2nd - 6th Grade Make Inferences Resources

Students will learn fun facts about animals while making inferences about nonfiction text.

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Read an informational passage about George Washington Carver to learn about his life and achievements!

Introduce your little reader to some classic childhood literature, with Rudyard Kipling's charming story "The Crab That Played with the Sea."

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

How is a train like a bird? Find out in this sixth-grade informational reading comprehension worksheet all about biomimicry!

Introduce students to some wild and weird types of lightning with this fascinating reading comprehension worksheet!

Practice analyzing poetry with one of Emily Dickinson’s most popular poems!

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Here's a worksheet that's great for improving reading comprehension skills. Kids read a simple story about a girl and her kitten then answer the question below.

Inspire middle-grade learners with this biography of Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space!

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.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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 students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Use this worksheet to practice matching a character’s actions with their emotions.

Students will practice making inferences about the characters, setting, and events based on clues in the passage.

Your students will need to read between the lines as they make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

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.

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

Help young readers make inferences using context clues with this worksheet.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Introduce children to physicist Albert Einstein — and a bit of theoretical physics — with this mini biography.

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

Making inferences is a critical skill for young readers to master, as it helps them look beyond the words on the page to figure out the author's message. Use these simple sentences to get your students started in making their own inferences!

Text dependent questions are reading comprehension questions that can only be answered by referring to the text. Students have to read the text closely and use inferential thinking to determine the answer. Use this list of text dependent questions for you