Quote Accurately from a Text

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

• Analyze

• Inference

• Cite

• Explicitly

Cite several pieces of _______ from a text.

• Inferences

• Cite

• Evidence

• Central (Main) Idea

conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

• support

• infer

• analyze

• cite

to quote text as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in scholarly work

• support

• infer

• analyze

• cite

answer; response; inference

• claim

• text

• evidence

to be stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

• explicitly

• implicitly

A VALID INFERENCE is...

• wild guess

• never supported

• supported with evidence

• is hard to find

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

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.

"Text Evidence" is

• my best guess.

• what I can learn from reading the text.

• what I know from experiences that I have had in life.

• a test.