ELA - Reading Strategies

An inference is...

• Text evidence + what you know
• Retelling a text
• Making a guess without evidence
• Information written directly into the text.

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect
• Visualize
• Clarify
• Infer/Predict

There is a child sleeping upstairs quietly, when all of a sudden there is a loud "THUMP!"  We can infer that:

• The child continued to sleep calmly
• The child fell out of bed
• The child was eating a bag of chips
• The child was reading a book

Author's Purpose: An “X-men” comic book.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.
• know the wrong answer.
• not think about the story at all.
• stop reading.

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing
• the entire text told in your own words
• a dumb thing that teachers make you write
• the main ideas and important details of a text

Author's Purpose: A list of the 25 richest athletes in the world.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Tim looked out the window. The house looked so lonely. Tim's father put the last suitcase in the trunk and started up the car. Thor, his dog, put his head on Tim's lap, like he understood how  Tim was feeling. "It's okay Thor," he said, "Dad says we will like California." What is happening?

• Tim is sad because his dog doesn't have a house to live in.
• Tim is taking a trip to visit people he doesn't know.
• Tim is taking Thor to live with his grandmother.
• Tim is moving to California with his family.

Rachel was on her way to volunteer at the animal shelter.  She was very excited!  She really liked dogs.  Her brother was allergic to dogs, however, so she was rarely around them.  Rachel had a lot of fun playing with the puppies, but after her shift, itchy bumps appeared on her arms.
It is likely that:

• Mosquitoes bit Rachel
• Rachel is allergic to dogs, too
• Rachel fell in poison ivy
• Rachel was already sick

Which type of text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different?

• Chronological
• Cause & Effect
• Problem & Solution
• Compare/Contrast