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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Read this passage from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and get both reading and writing practice in one fell swoop.

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

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.

With this language arts exercise, students will find textual evidence and use it to support an inference.

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

Have your child read these Peter Pan passages and decide what she knows about the Peter Pan character.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Inferences About Feelings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

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

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!

Neverland: an imaginary place where your child never grows up. Have him read this passage from the story of Peter Pan and draw his own Neverland.

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.