drawing inference and conclusions

Carter was walking down the street carefully avoiding the puddles because it rained the night before. His mom just bought him a new Nike hoodie and he wanted to show it off at school. Suddenly, a car drove into a puddle and splashed his sweatshirt.

What can you infer about the weather?

• It is currently raining.

• It is chilly out.

• The sun is shining.

• Carter hates the rain.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

How do you make an inference?

• Background knowledge only

• Text evidence only

• Three pieces of text evidence

• Background knowledge and text evidence

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Rebecca was babysitting her twin brothers last night. There was a knock at the door and Rebecca went to answer it. When she got to the door, someone pushed her out and locked it. When she looked into the window she saw her brothers laughing.

What can you infer about the situation?

• The wind blew the door shut.

• Rebecca's brothers locked her out.

• Rebecca locked herself out on accident.

• Rebecca's brothers accidentally locked her out.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Cara and Tom were setting up decorations for the school dance on Friday. They needed people to volunteer to help sell tickets throughout the week. Tom said there would be donuts for all the students who signed up to sell the tickets.

What can you infer about the outcome of the after school meeting?

• Cara and Tom threatened students to help out with the dance.

• Cara is in love with Tom and wants to ask him to the dance.

• Students showed up because they wanted free donuts.

• Students wanted to volunteer because they enjoyed helping out.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

"Ouch! I've got a splinter in my finger," cried Rosa. "I knew I shouldn't have climbed over the wooden fence." Rosa ran into the house to find her mother. She knew that it would be bad to leave the  splinter in her finger for a long time. 

• Rosa got a splinter in her toe.
• Rosa climbed over a fence.
• Rosa wanted her mother to take out the splinter.
• Rosa ran to find her father.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

"I must get into the habit of remembering my lunch," Gina said "I left it on the school bus twice last week. And one day I even forgot to take it out of the house." Gina was glad when it was suppertime. She was extremely hungry.

• Gina rides to school on a bus.
• Today Gina had forgotten her lunch again.
• Gina always buys her lunch at school.
• Gina's friend brought her a lunch.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

"Can you get my ball?" asked Robert. "I threw it too high and it landed on the roof." 
"I can't get the ball without a ladder," said Robert's older brother. "We'll have to wait until our neighbor, Mr. Green, comes home from work. Then I'll be able to get your ball."

• Mr. Green has a ladder.
• Mr. Green has a job.
• Mr. Green will climb on the roof to get the ball.
• Robert hit the ball over the fence.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

For Valentine's Day, my neighbor gave his wife a poem that took him two seconds to write.

• My neighbor is a poet
• My neighbor loves to write
• My neighbor is an author
• My neighbor is lazy

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1