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

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

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

Learn about these grassland biomes, then discover some fun facts about their animal inhabitants as you complete a matching activity.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

Learn about the climate, fauna, and flora of these high-altitude biomes, then review what you've learned with a quick sentence-matching activity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Learn about one of the world's most mysterious pieces of written text, the Voynich manuscript, which has never been deciphered.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Text Connections.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Inferences and Introductory Phrases.