Text Evidence and Inferences

Which sentence BEST supports the idea that Jack is feeling sleepy?

• Jack went to bed late because he was at a birthday party.

• Jackʼs eyes were droopy and his eyelids felt really heavy.

• Jack put his head down on the desk.

• Jack was not paying attention to the lesson.

What statement about inferencing is CORRECT?

• An inference is not based on any evidence

• An inference is based only on what the text says

• An inference always turns out to be right

• An inferences requires you to use clues

_______ + ________ = Inference

• Background knowledge + Clues from the text

• Background knowledge + Opinion

• A guess without evidence + information from the text

Read this situation. You can see that there´s a person running and hugging a purse. Then, you walk around the block and see a girl crying and asking for help. You can guess that...

• The guy was running because he stole the purse.

• The girl is asking for help because she lost her child.

• The guy is running because he is taking the purse to his mom.

Braedon sat in the empty classroom and stared at the floor. It was 4:30pm and school had been over for half an hour, but he still had to sit there. He could over hear his teacher talking to the principal in the hallway about what had happened during class. He put his head in his hands and sighed.
What may the reader best infer from the passage?

• The principal and the teacher are making fun of Braedon.

• Braedon is in detention because he had acted out in class.

• The teacher is getting paid extra to oversee detention.

• Braedon is proud of his poor behavior.

What is one inference you can make from looking at this picture? How do you know?

(Be sure to use the word "because" in your response.

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Michael and Seth are on their way to Benson State Park. They like to go to the park on weekends during the winter. They like to skate on the frozen lake. Every day, the park ranger checks the ice on the lake. If it is safe to skate, she puts up a sign that says, TODAY THE ICE IS SAFE. If it is not safe to skate, she puts up a sign that says, TODAY THE ICE IS NOT SAFE. Michael and Seth are at the park. They read the sign for today, and then put on their skates.
The reader can conclude that...

• Today is Saturday.

• Today is a safe day for skating.

• The park ranger likes her job.

• Michael and Seth like cold weather.

_____ is a reasonable guess based on textual evidence and what you already know.

• Analyze

• Inference

• Cite

• Explicitly

What are the important Key Ideas and details for Informational Text?

• Cite several pieces of evidence from a text.

• Make inferences based on the text

• Determine the central idea (main idea) of a text.

• Analyze it by citing text evidence or summarizing

• All of the above

requires looking back in the text for evidence to support an idea, answer a question or make a claim.

• Central (Main) Idea

• Summarizing

• Cite

• Paraphrasing