1st - 6th 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.

Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

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

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

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.

Introduce students to the influential, trailblazing African American athlete Althea Gibson with this reading comprehension worksheet.

Familiarize your child with Peter Pan, one of the most enduring characters of children's literature, with this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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.

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

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

This reading activity gives kids practice supporting inferences with evidence.

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

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

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.

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

Introduce readers to the poem “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by English poet A. E. Housman with this sixth-grade worksheet! 

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

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

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

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

Your child will love learning all about the exploits of the famous European explorer Marco Polo with this attractively illustrated worksheet.

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

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

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!

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.

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