Making Inferences STAAR Review

Making Inferences & Making Connections STAAR Review

by Coach Russell

​How do you make an inference?

​You take clues from the text and your background knowledge to make an educated guess on what will happen.

​How do you know a question is an inferencing question?

• ​Which idea is best expressed?

• ​The author wrote this most likely to

• ​The reader can conclude that

• ​Which sentence best explains

• ​What does this sentence suggest

• ​Which idea is supported

​Remember the answer will not be in the text. You will have to infer!

​How do you make a connection?

​Text to text

​Text to self

​Text to world

​How do you know a question is a making a connection question?

​- How do this paragraph show a similar idea to the text?

- An important difference between the two text are?

​-How are both texts organized

-How are both things described in the text are similar

Multiple Choice

Which idea is best expressed in the cartoon at the end of the selection

• Red crabs shed their shells many times during their life

• More than 100 crab species live on Christmas Island

• Red crabs rely on their instincts during their migration

• Female red crabs can produce as many as 100,000 eggs.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from the selection supports the idea that Christmas Island is a special place?

• The red land crab makes up the largest population of the land crab species

• The island boasts an array of exotic plants and animals, some of which are found nowhere else in the world

• Only 1,500 or so people lived on the island as of 2010.

• Christmas Island is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Multiple Choice

The author included paragraph 1 in the selection most likely to

• provide background information about the home of red crabs

• explain why it is important for the red crabs to reach the ocean

• provide reasons for visiting Christmas Island during the red crab migration

• explain why Christmas island is a perfect place for red crabs to live

Multiple Choice

An important difference between the migrations mentioned in "Red Crab Invasion" and "Monarch Magic" is the only the butterflies

• breed during their journey

• migrate to escape harsh weather

• are seen by people while migrating

• travel in a group

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from "Red Crab Invasion" Illustrates a similar idea as the lines?

• After mating, the males return to higher ground, but the females wait by the shore to lay their eggs

• During that journey they risk getting run over by cars, suffering dehydration or being attacked by other animals

• At the beginning of this migration, it appears as though the mountain is erupting with crabs

• Among this great diversity are more than 100 kinds of crabs

Multiple Choice

Which organizational pattern does the author and the poet use to describe the migration of an organism?

• The events of the migration are presented in sequential order

• The events of the migration are ordered from most important to least important

• Problems that the organism encounters during the migration are listed, and the solutions are given.

• Opinions about the organisms are presented, and the these opinions are supported by factual information