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.

This reading comprehension worksheet features Kipling's "The Elephant's Child," an origin story that offers a whimsical explanation for the elephant's long trunk.

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

Children will learn about the fascinating history of the automobile in America, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

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

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

Get to know astronaut Mae Jemison in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet!

Get to know scientist, artist, and activist Mae Jemsion in this reading comprehension worksheet!

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

Bring a fun camping mystery to life for second- and third-grade students with an engaging reading comprehension activity!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ever wonder about those mysterious crop circles that show up in fields across the world? Engage in a fun conversation about this interesting type of geoglyph.

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.