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Reading & Text Analysis • Inference & Text Evidence

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Make inferences and prove them by quoting accurately from the text.

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Learning Goals

  • ✓Make an inference from a passage.
  • ✓Use accurate text evidence.
  • ✓Explain how evidence supports an inference.

Mini Lesson

  1. 1An inference is an educated conclusion.
  2. 2Good readers combine what they know with what the text says.
  3. 3In Grade 5, every inference needs evidence.
  4. 4Use this frame: I infer ___ because the text states ___.
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Passage

Marcus looked out the window and sighed. He grabbed his heavy umbrella, pulled on his thick yellow boots, and locked the door behind him.

Question

What is the weather like, and how do you know?

Instruction

Write one sentence using an inference and text evidence from the passage.

CCSS RL.5.1

Exit Ticket

What two things do readers combine to make an inference?

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Background knowledge and text evidence.

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