Making Inferences

Grade 7•45 minutes•Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to: (A) establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts; (B) generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information; (C) make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures; (D) create mental images to deepen understanding; (E) make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society; (F) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;

Learning Objective

I can draw conclusions about characters, events, and ideas in a text by making inferences supported by textual evidence.

Practice Questions

This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.

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1. Explain what an inference is in your own words. How is it different from guessing?

2. Read the following sentence: "The old house stood on a hill overlooking the town. A single light flickered in one of the windows, and a chilling wind whistled through the broken panes." What can you infer about the house and its surroundings? Provide evidence from the text to support your inference.

3. A character in a story is described as always wearing a worn-out coat, carrying a tattered notebook, and spending hours in the library. What can you infer about this character's personality and interests? Explain your reasoning.

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