Explicit and Implicit Evidence and Inferring

Explicit is:

• When the answer is obvious in the text

• When the answer isn't in the text at all

• When the answer is implied in the text

• When the narrator is in first person

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

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Implicit is:

• When the narrator is in first person

• When the answer isn't in the text at all

• When the answer is hidden in the text

• When the answer is obvious in the text

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read the following passage and answer the question:

Maggie was getting ready to walk to school. She put on her coat and grabbed her backpack.

Which of the following is explicitly stated in the paragraph?

• Maggie lives close to the school.

• Maggie put on her coat and grabbed her backpack.

• Maggie is in primary school.

• Maggie is never late to school.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Identify the implicit information in the article below:

Maggie was getting ready to walk to school. She put on her coat and grabbed her backpack.

• Maggie was late to school.

• Maggie lives close to the school.

• Maggie was in primary school.

• Maggie is excited about going to school.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read the passage below. Identify the explicit information.

Omar hurried out of the house so he wasn't late for work. He wore overalls and carried a toolbox with wrenches in it. He hopped in his truck and drove off. The sign on his truck said, “Pipe Masters.”

• Omar hurried out of the house so he wasn't late for work.

• Omar enjoys his job.

• Omar is a plumber.

• Omar has a red truck.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When something is implicit then the reader can go back and find the information directly in the story.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Why would an author put implicit information into one of their stories?

• To make the reader think deeper about the story.

• Because the author couldn't squeeze it into the story properly.

• To upset the reader with a lack of information.

• To show their writing superiority over the rest of us.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Another way of thinking about implicit information is to think of it as......?

• Guessing

• Reading between the lines

• What the narrator doesn't want you to know

• Something that is not suggested at all

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Joe bought a new pair of shoes. He asks his friend Bill if he likes his new shoes. Bill answers, "Joe, those shoes are really ugly!"

What kind of statement is Bill making?

• Implicit / Inference

• Explicit

• He doesn't want to answer.

• He steals the shoes.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Leif Ericson sailed from Norway to North America in a Viking Longship 400 years before Christopher Columbus found North America is 1492. Leif pioneered a settlement that lasted for years.

What is INFERRED?

• Leif Ericson sailed to North America in a Viking Longship.

• Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America.

• Leif Ericson built ships.

• Christopher Columbus was a Viking.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2