Inference

Text evidence + what you know

Retelling a text

Making a guess without evidence

Bryan had to feed his pet every day.

Bryanʼs pet never bites.

It was Bryan's job to clean out the litter box every 3 days.

Suzy's mom makes Suzy practice basketball every day.

Suzy looks forward to her basketball games.

Suzy scored 5 points in her last basketball game.

The characters in the text

The topic of the text.

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

Inference

Background knowledge

Text evidence

Joannaʼs hair was a little messy when she got to school.

Joanna had to put her helmet inside the classroom closet.

Joanna crossed three streets on her way to school.

Lucy had to write out her story instead of typing it.

Lucy took three hours to finish her homework.

Lucy's homework was not done correctly.

at camp

at home

at the beach

setting

characters

clues

Sofia was practicing for the big race.

Sofia's alarm didn't go off, and she was late for school.

Sofia was dressing up as a clown.