9/3 Spark Time Week 2

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to be able to make inferences when reading a text?

• It helps us guess the ending of a story.

• It allows us to understand information that is not directly stated.

• It makes reading faster.

• It helps us memorize every word.

Making Inferences!

On the next few slides, we are going to see some different inferences made about the text.

Our job? Find evidence from the text to support these inferences!

Inference #1

Practice is Important for Everyone

Inference #2

Musical instruments have changed over time...

Inference #3

Musical is both fun and skillful

As we read, think about:
What is the author explicitly telling me?
What do you already know about trombones?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are key steps in making inferences from a text?

• Ignoring details and focusing on the main idea

• Using clues from the text and your own knowledge

• Only reading the first and last sentences

• Guessing without evidence

Multiple Choice

Which statement would be considered an inference, or an educated guess, based on this passage:

"The harpsichord creates sharp, bright music, but there is no way to make it play louder or softer

notes. Musicians who wanted more variety were thrilled with a new invention: the piano, which

struck the strings with hammers rather than plucking them."

• Musicians wanted more variety

• Old instruments influenced new, modern instruments

• Pianos have hammers

• harpsichords create sharp, bright music.

Multiple Choice

Which evidence from the passage supports the inference that "old instruments influenced new, modern instruments"?

• Harpsichord lessons were a must for princesses and other young people in Europe 300 years ago.

• In fact, its original name was pianoforte,

  which means “soft-loud” in Italian.

  1 FA

• Musicians who wanted more variety were thrilled with a new invention: the piano

• The harpsichord creates sharp, bright music

Multiple Choice

Which evidence from the text supports the inference:

"String Instruments Have a Long History"

• The musician plucked the strings with a plectrum

• Modern trombones can be heard in orchestras, marching bands, and jazz groups.

• Some instruments are a group activity.

• To the ancient Greeks, the lyre represented wisdom and beauty.

Multiple Choice

Which evidence from the text supports the inference:

"Percussion Instruments Can Be Played by Groups"

• And practicing on the embaire really

  looks like fun!

• In Uganda, teams of six play the huge embaire, a xylophone

  made of large wooden boards set above a pit in the ground.

• Unlike drums, xylophones can

  play tunes as well as keep a beat.

• They were

  also sometimes carried by town guards!

Woodworking

Violins

PART 1: WHAT DO I KNOW?
DIRECTIONS: Before reading the passage “In the Violin Workshop,” lets write down everything you already know about violins and woodworking.

PART 2: WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR SAY?
DIRECTIONS: After reading the passages, complete the chart below by providing three quotes from the passage about how violins are made.

What are some details, or quotes from the passage that will answer that question?

How are violins made?

Part 3: What Can I Infer?

What inferences can you make about luthiers?

Multiple Select

"Luthiers need to know something about playing the violin."

What TWO details from the passage support this inference?

• “Robyn picked up her first violin when she was 7 years old.

• Violin glue is made from fish or animal hides and bones.

• To protect the wood, violins get painted with many coats of varnish.

• She now plays the viola (a kind of larger violin) in orchestras and makes violins.

Open Ended

What questions do you still have about making inferences, or is there anything else you would like to learn about this topic?