Making Inferences

Making Inferences

I will use my background knowledge (schema) along with text clues to make inferences.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to make an inference?

• To make a guess without using any text clues or schema.

• To cite evidence.

• Using your background knowledge and text clues to figure something out on your own without being told.

Multiple Choice

What fact from the selection is best supported by the information in the photograph?

• A smokejumper’s most important task is to create a firebreak.

• A fire truck thirty miles away from a wildfire could take an hour or more to reach the blaze.

• Smokejumper Patrick Withen is falling at thirteen

  feet per second, but he feels as though he is floating.

• Then begins six weeks of grueling “boot camp”: physical endurance training (running, swimming, aerobics, weightlifting, and more) and parachute training

  (jump skills, landing rolls, and chute packing)

Multiple Choice

PART A

Based on the information in paragraph 1, what can the reader infer about the text? Provide text evidence to support your answer.

• Smokejumpers feel nervous or scared before jumping into a fire.

• Smokejumpers must sleep at least 8 hours a night to be prepared.

• Smokejumpers need little training to do their job.

Multiple Choice

Part B

What is the best text evidence to support your answer in Part A?

• "His hands firmly gripping the sides. His heart races"

• "If you don’t like making your bed, you won’t like

  packing your parachute”

• “Even if we are one hundred miles away, we can be working on that fire within thirty-five minutes,”

Multiple Choice

What did Katie clean up?

• Katie cleaned up a bottle of mustard.

• Katie cleaned up orange juice.

• Katie cleaned up a broken egg.

Multiple Choice

What do you think the scout leader was feeling?

• The scout leader was feeling worried because he thought a storm was coming.

• The scout leader was lost.

• The scout leader was feeling tired.

Multiple Choice

Why do you think Emily was crying?

• Emily was feeling sick.

• Emily had not started a school project that was due the next day.

• Emily was tired after a long day.

Multiple Choice

What did Jenna do?

• Jenna went upstairs to take a nap for a little while.

• Jenna went upstairs to check on the child she was babysitting.

• Jenna was looking for the house cat.