Text Evidence and Inferences

Why is it important to provide text evidence?

• It makes your claim stronger and helps prove your point.

• It shows that you know what you are talking about

• It allows your reader to get the important facts from the article without reading the whole thing.

• It makes your paragraph longer.

When do you put textual evidence in your own words?

• Always

• Most of the time

• Sometimes

• Never

Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim: The students at Jackson Middle School should be given ice cream every Friday during ELA.

• The students love ice cream and deserve it because they worked all week and did their homework.

• The students need ice cream because it tastes yummy.

• ELA is the best class to have ice cream in because we are in Mrs. Cooper’s room.

• In math class, students get ice cream on Fridays and their grades went up as well as their ability to focus.

Brian had decided to always have enough on hand for three days and after spending one night with the fire for a friend he knew what a staggering amount of wood it would take.

The word staggering means; impressive as to stun or overwhelm. What evidence from the text helps you determine the definition of staggering? Choose the BEST answer.

• “...amount of wood it would take.”

• “...on hand for three days”

• “...decided to always have enough…”

• “...spending one night with the fire…”

To make an inference, you need to...

• Use text evidence

• Use your schema

• BOTH

To infer something means to...

• Come to a conclusion using evidence.

• Randomly guess.

• Highlight words.

Making inferences helps us...

• Learn how to read.

• Understand text.

• Get a 100% on a quiz.

Choose the appropriate inference for this picture.

• Two friends are excited about graduating.

• One friend is sad and the other is happy about graduating.

• Neither friend cares about graduation.

Context clues help us make inferences.

• False

• True

To infer something, you must have evidence.

• True

• False