Explicit and Implicit Evidence and Inferring

Explicit is:

• When the answer is obvious in the text

• When the answer isn't in the text at all

• When the answer is implied in the text

• When the narrator is in first person

Implicit is:

• When the narrator is in first person

• When the answer isn't in the text at all

• When the answer is hidden in the text

• When the answer is obvious in the text

Read the following passage and answer the question:

Maggie was getting ready to walk to school. She put on her coat and grabbed her backpack.

Which of the following is explicitly stated in the paragraph?

• Maggie lives close to the school.

• Maggie put on her coat and grabbed her backpack.

• Maggie is in primary school.

• Maggie is never late to school.

Identify the implicit information in the article below:

Maggie was getting ready to walk to school. She put on her coat and grabbed her backpack.

• Maggie was late to school.

• Maggie lives close to the school.

• Maggie was in primary school.

• Maggie is excited about going to school.

Read the passage below. Identify the explicit information.

Omar hurried out of the house so he wasn't late for work. He wore overalls and carried a toolbox with wrenches in it. He hopped in his truck and drove off. The sign on his truck said, “Pipe Masters.”

• Omar hurried out of the house so he wasn't late for work.

• Omar enjoys his job.

• Omar is a plumber.

• Omar has a red truck.

When something is implicit then the reader can go back and find the information directly in the story.

• True

• False

Why would an author put implicit information into one of their stories?

• To make the reader think deeper about the story.

• Because the author couldn't squeeze it into the story properly.

• To upset the reader with a lack of information.

• To show their writing superiority over the rest of us.

Another way of thinking about implicit information is to think of it as......?

• Guessing

• Reading between the lines

• What the narrator doesn't want you to know

• Something that is not suggested at all

Joe bought a new pair of shoes. He asks his friend Bill if he likes his new shoes. Bill answers, "Joe, those shoes are really ugly!"

What kind of statement is Bill making?

• Implicit / Inference

• Explicit

• He doesn't want to answer.

• He steals the shoes.

Leif Ericson sailed from Norway to North America in a Viking Longship 400 years before Christopher Columbus found North America is 1492. Leif pioneered a settlement that lasted for years.

What is INFERRED?

• Leif Ericson sailed to North America in a Viking Longship.

• Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America.

• Leif Ericson built ships.

• Christopher Columbus was a Viking.