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Answering Inference Questions

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Answering Inference Questions

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How to answer inference questions?

  • First, you need to search for clues or evidence in the text.
  • You then need to highlight the clues.
  • Finally, you explain what the clue tells us.
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Thoughts, feelings and motives

  • You can often find clues about a character’s thoughts, feelings or motives.
  • You will find clues about a character’s thoughts, feelings or motives in the author’s descriptions.
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Where can you find clues?

  • Look out for clues in the descriptions of the character's actions, words, appearance or body language.
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Example: sentence

  • The child jumped up and down, grinning from ear to ear.
    • The author has not told us how the child feels.
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Inference

  • The child jumped up and down, grinning from ear to ear.
    • We can infer the child is happy and excited from the clues we have highlighted.

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1.5Reading Comprehension

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2.8Relative Clauses

2.9Expanded Nouns

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