After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, help learners analyze two characters from the book with this creative extension activity!

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

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

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

This resource helps ELs incorporate their own thoughts and text connections into a thinking paragraph.

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

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This story starter is getting warmer! Read this version of the story of Helios the sun god, then have your child make his own sun myth.

Use this resource to help your students formulate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions when reading fiction texts.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

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

Does your child know where their toys come from before they're in the toy store? Get your student ready to research with this fun worksheet and activity.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.

Children will use this sandwich-format diagram to write their prediction, evidence, and reasoning.

Kids match reading genres to descriptions in this worksheet.

List your favorite movies that came out this summer, then write your very own reviews of the best—and maybe the worst!—of the bunch.

During this pre-reading exercise, your students will rely on nonfiction text features and their own background knowledge to gather information.

Get the best of the season, and write your own winter bucket list! This is a great exercise for helping kids set and keep goals.

Support your students in using introductory phrases to cite the text as they make inferences.

Readers practice describing fictional characters using their own words with this graphic organizer template.

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