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Making Inferences STAAR Review

Making Inferences STAAR Review

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English

5th - 6th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

CCSS
RI.5.2, RI.3.5, RI.5.7

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Gabriel Russell

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7 Slides • 6 Questions

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Making Inferences & Making Connections STAAR Review

by Coach Russell

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​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.

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​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!

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​How do you make a connection?

​Text to text

​Text to self

​Text to world

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​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

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Multiple Choice

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

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Red crabs shed their shells many times during their life

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More than 100 crab species live on Christmas Island

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Red crabs rely on their instincts during their migration

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

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Multiple Choice

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

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

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

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

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Christmas Island is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

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Multiple Choice

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The author included paragraph 1 in the selection most likely to

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provide background information about the home of red crabs

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

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provide reasons for visiting Christmas Island during the red crab migration

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

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Multiple Choice

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

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breed during their journey

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migrate to escape harsh weather

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are seen by people while migrating

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travel in a group

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Multiple Choice

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

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

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

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

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Among this great diversity are more than 100 kinds of crabs

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Multiple Choice

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

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The events of the migration are presented in sequential order

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

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

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

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