What is an Inference?

What does Inference mean?

• finding details in a story
• Use clues and what you already know to come up with an idea
• Giving a reason for your answer
• Using what I know

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To make an inference, we use evidence from the text, and our prior knowledge. 

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Sometimes we have to “read between the lines.” Authors don’t always tell us everything. We need to use textual evidence and prior knowledge to understand the text better. 

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL.5.1

In real life, people who can back up an opinion about a text with Textual Evidence are taken more seriously than people who can only give a reason of “just because".

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.6.1

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.7.1