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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Use this passage as an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, and explore Aunt Em's character inside and out.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Steps to Make an Inference.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Character Actions and Emotions.

Use this handy concept web to teach your students about ways to interact with text, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections that can help deepen their understanding of what they read.