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8th Grade Inferences & Conclusions

Authored by Georgia Ross

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

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8th Grade Inferences & Conclusions
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

_______ + ________ = Inference

Background knowledge + Clues from the text

Background knowledge + Opinion

A guess without evidence + information from the text

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What does it mean to draw a conclusion?

To take a random guess at something.

To draw a good guess based on evidence and detail from a source, as well as your own personal experience.

To draw a good guess based on the mood that you are in that day.

To base a good guess on your own personal experience.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

  In the seventeenth century, the Incan people of South America had an empire that stretched more than 2,500 miles. They built highways throughout their empire. One of their tunnels extended 750 feet through a mountain cliff. One of their rope suspension bridges is still used today. 
 From this article you cannot tell......
 

why the roads were important to the Inca.
the size of the Inca Empire.
if the Inca were skilled in engineering.
in what period the Inca lived.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

 Polo is a game played on horseback. Each team has four players who attempt to hit a ball with their sticks. Each player has to handle the stick with his or her right hand and control the horse with the left hand. The team that scores more goals wins. Goals are scored by hitting the ball inside the other teams's goalposts.
What conclusions can you draw from this paragraph?
 

You must train your own horse.
Polo is a sport everyone can play.
You must be left-handed to play polo.
You can't play polo if you do not know how to ride a horse.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

 Phillis Wheatley was born in Africa. At the age of eight, she was brought to America as a slave. There she learned English and Latin, and she managed to gain her freedom. In 1770, she published her first poem. After that she gained fame as a poet. She even shared her poetry with others when she made a trip to England in 1773.
What conclusion can you draw from this paragraph?

Phillis Wheatley was good with languages.
Phillis Wheatley did not mind being a slave.
Phillis Wheatley also wrote stories. 
Phillis Wheatley had sisters and brothers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

 Alonso is building a weather station. He wants to record details abut the weather in his town. So far he has a thermometer to measure air temperature, a gauge to measure rainfall, and a windsock to check wind direction. He still needs something to measure snowfall.
What conclusion can you draw from this paragraph?
 

Alonzo's weather station isn't finished yet.
Alonzo is 18 years old.
Alonzo lives in St. Paul. 
Alonzo hopes it won't snow.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

  A comet is like a dirty ball of snow. It is made of frozen gases, frozen water, and dust. As a comet approaches the sun, the icy center gets hot and evaporates. The gases made by the evaporation form the tail of the comet. The dust left behind in the process forms meteor showers. 
You can conclude from the story that.....

the sun helps create the tail of the comet.
throwing a ball of snow can turn it into a comet. 
comets are made of snow.
meteor showers are visible with a telescope.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

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