Text Evidence Inference

In real life, people who can back up an opinion about a text with Textual Evidence are taken more seriously than people who can only give a reason of “just because".

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What is an inference?

•  An inference is something that you think is true based on information that you have.

• An inference is directly written in the text

When reading literature, it is important to cite text evidence to support your analysis of the most important details and events of a story. In addition to citing text evidence to answer comprehension questions, you can also use text evidence to make inferences.

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_{Inferring uses these skills?}
• making an assumption based on subtle verbal and nonverbal clues
• judging or concluding that something is true
• analyzing facts and coming to a logical outcome based on
the evidence
• drawing conclusions (reading between the lines)
• realizing “Oh, now I get it!”

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Rosario was enjoying her vacation in the California sun. She was lying on araft in the ocean. This was perfect, Rosario thought. There was no noise—no childrenscreaming, no horns honking—and there were no papers to grade. All she couldhear was the crashing of the waves onto the beach. Rosario sighed and lookedaround her at the beauty of the ocean. Then she saw something long and graycoming toward her on an approaching wave. She thought, “This could only be onething!” and started yelling for help. She paddled back to shore as quickly as she could.She made it to the shore in one piece , but she realized that many people were laughing at her.
We can infer that the "thing" was not a...

• shark

• surfer

• swimmer

In a trial, the jury needs to carefully look at the ________________ to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not.

• evidence

• cite

• claim

• inference

If you make an inference, the evidence is not clearly stated.

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Which piece of evidence could BEST be used to prove this claim:
The government SHOULD decide what students eat for lunch.

• School lunches, on average have only about 550 calories;however, lunches brought from home have about 850 calories.

• The GAO report said that students in one district refused to eat school lunches for three weeks.

• The rules make lunches cheap for students, but they cost schools money.
  

It was a tough day for Cleveland Cavaliers fans. Well, it was confusing. Kyrie Irving got dealt to the Boston Celtics after requesting a trade out of Cleveland last month. Even though things have been strange between Irving and LeBron James, there’s no question how much James respects Irving.That was apparent in his public goodbye to Irving.
Answer the following question: What evidence shows that Kyrie and Lebron are on better speaking terms?

• The evidence that shows that Kyrie and Lebron are on better terms is that Kyrie is being traded.

• The evidence that shows that Kyrie and Lebron are on better terms because things had been strange before and then Kyrie was traded.

• The evidence that shows that Kyrie and Lebron are on better terms is that according to the text Lebron James respected Kyrie Irving by giving him a public goodbye.

• The evidence that shows that Kyrie and Lebron are on speaking terms is that things were strange and now they talk.

Which of the following best describes the role of text evidence in making an inference?

• Text evidence provides direct answers to questions.

• Text evidence supports conclusions drawn from the text.

• Text evidence is irrelevant to making inferences.

• Text evidence is only used in summarizing a text.