Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

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

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

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.

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

With this reading worksheet, your students will read about basketball player Steph Curry and then write three inferences.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

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

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

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.

This fun resource will strengthen students’ emotional intelligence as they use images to make inferences, a skill which contributes to improved reading comprehension.

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

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

Introduce readers to the inspiring poem “Thanksgiving” by American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox with this sixth-grade reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

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.

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.

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

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.

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

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.

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

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