Reading Solutions Inferences and Generalizations

"[The Grand Canyon] is the land of music. The river thunders in a perpetual roar, swelling in floors of music when the storm gods play upon the rocks and fading away in soft and low murmurs when the infinite blue of heaven is unveiled. With the melody of the great tide rising and falling, swelling and vanishing forever, other melodies are heard in the gorges of the lateral canyons, while the waters plunge in the rapids among the rocks or leap in great cataracts."

-"The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth" by John Wesley Powell

What is the best description of the tone of this passage?

• fearful

• awestruck

• bored

• surprised

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Professional athletes are typically rich.
This statement is:

• a fact

• an opinion

• a generalization

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

It was a scorching 103 degrees outside. Peyton and Alexa decided to ride their bikes to the town pool to cool off. When they arrived, they saw that the swimming pool was packed with hundreds of people.
When it's hot outside, almost everyone wants to go swimming. 
This generalization is:

• faulty

• valid

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

You look down at your lunch tray and think, YUCK! That broccoli looks limp and disgusting! How can anyone eat that? When tables are dismissed, you look around and realize that no one at your table at the repulsive-looking broccoli.
No one in school like the broccoli served at lunch.
This generalization is:

• valid

• faulty

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Many kids find fractions confusing.
This statement is:

• fact

• opinion

• generalization

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What can be inferred from the notice about the location of the school?

• (A) Snowstorms are fairly common in the region.

• (B) The location usually gets rain instead of snow.

• (C) There have never been big snowstorms in the area.

• (D) Classes do not get canceled often because of weather.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

A major issue recently has been people cheating on their school exams. In the last week alone, four students have been caught with answer sheets prepared before the test. It is very sad to see students acting so dishonestly and even sadder to see them fail their exams because of cheating. Moreover, the cheat sheets that have been taken are very well made. Clearly, students have put in a great deal of effort to create them. If students had just focused on studying instead of trying to cheat, they probably would have done well on their own. The faculty is holding meetings this week to find out what they can do to fix this problem. They have already decided to fail any student who is caught cheating and are considering additional actions. Realistically, the students need to help themselves. Students at this school 10 need to realize how dishonest and unfair it is to cheat. Everyone needs to follow the rules for the rest of exams. That means that students shouldn't have cheat sheets, shouldn't look at the papers of others, and shouldn't use any other methods of cheating. What does the author imply about the students using cheat sheets?

• They are not prepared enough for their exams.

• They should have to leave school after the exams.

• They are shamelessly hurting the school's reputation.

• They spent their time and effort doing the wrong thing.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

How to Draw Inferences

1. You look for clues in the text, little pieces of information that seem to relate to the missing information or your question.
2. You think about what you already know from your own experience in the real world.
3. You put these two pieces of the puzzle together in a logical way to produce a reasonable conclusion that supplies the missing piece of information or the answer to your question.

Drawing an inference requires your background knowledge and information from the text?

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

in fiction is a reasonable conclusion or judgment about some element of a story based on the information given in the story and the reader's personal knowledge of how the world works.

• A clue

• A question

• An inference

• An implication

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

When making an inference, the most important thing is...

• What you know about the topic

• The topic of the text

• The characters in the text

• Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1