3rd - 8th 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.

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

Introduce middle school readers to one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son.”

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

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.

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

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

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

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

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!

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Improve your child's reading comprehension, and introduce them to a classic children's story, with this worksheet on The Story of a Stuffed Elephant.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students can use this graphic organizer to make inferences as they read fiction or nonfiction texts.

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

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

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

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