INFER Vocabulary Quiz

The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic (persuade, inform, entertain)

• main idea

• summary

• author's purpose

• effect

the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about

• cause

• main idea

• setting

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

a brief statement or account of the main points of something

• summary

• mood

• author's purpose

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.8

life lesson, meaning, or moral of a story or a poem

• effect

• main idea

• mood

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

the emotions that you (the reader) feel while you are reading

• infer

• cause

• mood

• tone

the way the author expresses his attitude through his writing

• tone

• cause

• mood

• theme

the time and place of a story

• effect

• setting

• theme

• contrast

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

to tell what will happen next

• predict

• clarify

• compare

• infer

to make clear and easier to understand

• contrast

• clarify

• factual

• predict

tell what is the same about two or more things

• compare

• contrast

• cause

• effect