Inferring and Text Evidence

What can you infer the setting is?

• at a house

• the mall

• a movie theatre

• the gym

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

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Infer/Predict

When I come across a word I don't know, I should...

• just keep reading and not worry about what the word means

• use the context clues in the text to help me figure out what the word means

• skip over the word and forget about it

• stop reading the book 

When you determine what you think will happen next in the text you __________. 

• Visualize

• Predict

• Connect

• Clarify

When you make a connection you...

• try to understand the passage.

• see a picture in my head

• form a link between what is happening in the text.

Choose the best vocabulary word for the definition: The action a good student does. The process of using known facts to come to a reasonable conclusion about something unsaid in the text.

• a quote

• to quote, quoting

• an inference

• to infer, inferring

Choose the best vocabulary word for the definition:

The name of the product that is made when a student actively comes to conclusions.

• a quote

• to quote, quoting

• an inference

• to infer, inferring

Pick the most correct quote for textual evidence:

• “It would take her half the morning if she didn’t stop along the way.” (1)

• It would take her half the morning if she didn’t stop along the way (pg. 1).

• “It would take her half the morning if she didn’t stop along the way” (1).

I can use any sentence from a text and make it a quote to use as textual evidence if I use quotation marks and tell the page.

• True

• False

When a question asks me to cite textual evidence, that means the question wants me to...

• include a quote and explain it

• summarize the story

• get the gist