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

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

Children are introduced to Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who got her start at a young age accompanying her mother as she registered African Americans to vote.

Students will use sentence stems and frames to make inferences about a story.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Inference Making.

Bring fiction to life by having your little readers choose a scene from their book to illustrate and caption! Students will work on visualizing a quoted passage from a book with this creative illustration exercise.

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

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

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.

Young historians will practice writing essays and get a great reading comprehension workout with this worksheet about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He.

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!

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.

Students will use a word bank and sentence frames to think about what motivates people.

Making inferences using visual clues takes practice! Use this worksheet to help analyze visual elements.

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

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

Your students will use their imaginations and context clues to gain understanding of inference, evidence, and schema with this activity. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the vocabulary in the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

Young readers will pick a book and join a band of pirates as they guide them to find hidden treasure through the secrets of inference.

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

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.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

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

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

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.

Look at the evidence and practice making inferences with the help of this handy graphic organizer.

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

Practice describing a character’s emotion based on actions.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Citing Inferences.