WorksheetsReading (Summarizing & Inferencing)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 18mins
When inferring you have to do what?
assume something that is not stated in the text.
guess what will happen.
just pick anything
make connections
The Summary of this passage is:
When would you most likely summarize a book?
when you want to forget a book you’ve read
when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about
when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book
when you don’t understand a vocabulary word you read in a book
When would you most likely summarize a book?
when you want to forget a book you’ve read
when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about
when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book
when you don’t understand a vocabulary word you read in a book
Max was baking some cookies, but then he got an important phone call. He returned a few minutes later to a smoke filled kitchen. What can you infer?
The oven has turned off.
Max forgot about the cookies and they are burning.
A candle was blown out in the kitchen.
The cookies are cooling on the baking pan.
An inference is...
Text evidence + what you know
Retelling a text
Making a guess without evidence
Information written directly into the text.
"I don't want a babysitter. I am eleven years old. My babysitter is only three years older than I am," she loudly yelled to her Mom. Now, she really wished she had somebody with her as she heard the clicking, scratching noises outside of the living room window. "This is silly. It's probably the storm," the girl said. She regretted watching the horror show she had been tuned into for the last half hour. As she searched for the remote to turn off the vampire movie, the front door blew open with a thunderous noise. Carla whirled around to see a dark image."
Carla didn't want a babysitter because:
She believes she is old enough to take care of herself.
She wants to watch scary movies.
Carla's mother leaves her alone all the time.
Carla's babysitter is only three years older than Carla.
