A key component of reading comprehension is being able to draw conclusions—or make inferences—about what we read. Use this resource to give your students extra practice making their own inferences based on simple sentences.

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!

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.

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

Make inferences and draw connections between illustrations and related text.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This reading resource gives your students practice using text clues and background knowledge to make inferences about characters.

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.

Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.

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

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

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

Students will make inferences, compare texts, and identify figurative language as they interpret reading passages.

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

Students will make inferences about the various scenes included in this reading exercise.

Help your students to visually interpret a scene from their book with this illustration worksheet! After students read, they’ll make the picture in their minds come to life by drawing their favorite scene and quoting a passage from the text.

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.

Use these task cards with your students to practice reading short passages and making inferences about character, setting, and plot.

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

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.

This reading worksheet teaches your kid some cool things about computer-generated imagery. She'll read about special effects and practice thinking critically.

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.