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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Explore the art of papier-mâché in this reading comprehension worksheet!

You may not think drama and theater is its own literary genre, but it requires a whole different style of writing and storytelling.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

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

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Learn about the plants and animals that make deciduous forests their home, then complete the crossword puzzle.

Make reading practice fun with this reading comprehension packet, based on Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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

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.

Assemble your favorite actors and find the perfect parts for them in your summer reading book.

Get your students excited about making text connections!