5th Grade Making Inferences Worksheets

These inference worksheets for 5th grade teach children to draw conclusions from clues in a story and back them up with quotes (CCSS RL.5.1). Thirteen original stories each focus on one kind of inference: a character's motives or feelings, the setting, something a character hides, or something that happened offstage. Children infer why Ivy follows a secret note, who empties Tess's bird feeder at night, what Kai hides when a swim medal goes missing and where Ben is fishing at dawn, filling a clue chart and answering questions for each. Thirteen shorter sheets practice inferences from short stories, passages and dialogue, character motives and It says, I know, and so charts. There are 26 original sheets, each with an answer key.