Inferences

Inferences

Objective: Students will be able to make inferences from the dialogue and stage directions in drama.

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One of their most popular dishes was popcorn soup.

Here are four words from a thesaurus entry for popular.

What does the word popular mean in the sentence?

A familiar

B in style

C well-liked

D famous

Your turn

• Refer to line 1

• Eva: (looking at the clock) Whoa. We’ve been playing this game for an hour. We haven’t made the final version of our “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” poster for Ms. Garcia’s class.

• Read the text. Look at the stage directions.

• What can you infer?

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the dialogue and stage directions in line 6

Eva: (frowning) My family recycles.

• shows she disagrees with the comment

• shows everyone has a right to recycle

• shows everyone can do their part to recycle

• shoes she hates to recycle

Multiple Select

Check all that apply:

Inferences are...

• conclusions being made

• important to reading comprehension

• hints being used

• using evidence

• observations made

Subject Pronouns

Explain that a pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

A subject pronoun takes the place of a noun used as the subject of a sentence.

To identify the subject of a sentence and the subject pronoun that might replace it, I ask: Who or what is the subject of the sentence? What word can you replace the subject with?

Example: Jessica emptied the box.

The word Jessica is the subject.

I can replace it with the subject pronoun She.

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Multiple Choice

Elephants are big.

______ can eat much.

• he

• she

• it

• they

Multiple Choice

Sara can swim

but ____ can't fly.

• he

• she

• it

• they

Multiple Choice

Tom likes hockey.

• He

• she

• Him

Multiple Choice

I love my friend Maria. ____is very nice.

• She

• are

• yes

• am