INFERENCES

Read the following paragraph taken from the text "The Whole Bird":

"Chicken was a staple in her home, a food she served all the time. Or so it seemed to me. For dinners, she often prepared the most delicious roast chicken anyone ever ate. But that was only part of what she did with that chicken. She would use just about every part of that bird before she was done with it."

According to the paragraph, we can infer that:

• Chicken was so easy to prepare that it was cooked in several forms

• Chicken was a dish that was prepared for special occasions

• Chicken was deliciously prepared in different forms

• Chicken was a non-regular dish

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Read the following paragraph about Orlando Bloom taken from the text "Orlando Bloomed!":

"Bloom encourages dyslexic kids never to think they’re failures, but rather to use their hurdle to find other ways to succeed. “If you can overcome this obstacle, you are going to be that much further along than anyone else,” Bloom advises."

From the fragment, we can infer the following:

• Bloom didn't advantage of his condition and failed on his goals

• Bloom gave up and found other ways to succeed without reading

• Bloom never overcame his problem and he did not do too much for his future

• Bloom tells kids to use weaknesses as a tool to explore new ways to succeed.

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

Read the following text taken from the essay "Peaceful Protesters":

"Henry David Thoreau, who was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1816, always stood up for what he believed to be right. After he graduated from Harvard, Thoreau taught school for a brief time in Concord, but he resigned to protest the school’s practice of whipping students for misbehavior."

According to this, we can infer that:

• Thoreau wanted to set a precedent to change disciplinary measures in the School System

• Thoreau resigned as he wanted to establish the whipping practice nationwide

• Thoreau resigned as he was not able to whip any kid at the school he worked at

• Thoreau used his resign as a sign of disagreement on not whipping students

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.1

Read the following paragraph taken from the text "Peaceful Protesters":

"On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Birmingham, Alabama. At the time, the law said that all African Americans had to sit in the back of public buses. Rosa was arrested for breaking the law. Rosa’s simple protest caught the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He and a group of AfricanAmerican leaders decided to boycott the Birmingham buses as a form of peaceful resistance to laws that discriminate against one group of people."

According to this, we can infer that:

• African Americans were set to stay behind in public transportation

• Rosa Parks's act made a point to start a peaceful request on African American rights in America

• Rosa Parks wanted to prove she had the right to stay on the seat she was at

• MLK Jr. asked Rosa Parks to be on the strike for their rights.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Read the following paragraph and select the correct answer:

"Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born in Sweden on January 3, 2003. Her one-person strike began when she was only 15—and made her one of the most famous and influential people in the world. Since then, she has spoken at numerous international conferences and events, including at the United Nations."

The underlined word means:

• that can cause desperation on someone

• That can cause inflation on someone

• Than can cause an impact on someone

• That can make fluid something

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

Read the following paragraph and select the correct answer:

"Reese was famished! It was nearly two o’clock, and he had not eaten since breakfast. Reese asked his mom if she would stop at a fast food restaurant on their way home from his baseball game."

The underlined word means:

• thirsty

• starved

• angry

• sad

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Read the following paragraph and select the correct answer:

"As his mother was explaining how Scottish cooks prepare haggis, a boiled sheep stomach stuffed with oatmeal, Reese began to feel nauseated and asked her to please stop talking until he had finished his lunch."

The underlined word means:

• having a headache

• having a hiccup

• having a stomachache

• having a back pain

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Read the following paragraph and select the correct answer:

"She rolled her eyes and shook her head. His mother absolutely loathed fast food, but with over 200,000 fast food restaurants in the United States, she found it hard to avoid them. They were everywhere!"

The underlined word means:

• disliked

• loved

• adored

• liked

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1