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Making Inferences 1
Directions:
Read
each passage and then respond to the questions.
Each question will ask you to
make a
logical inference based on textual details.
Explain your answer by referencing the text.
Every day after work Paul
took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front
porch. Alice would
have a fit if the
boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then
took off his dusty overalls and
threw
them into a plastic garbage bag; Alice left a new
garbage bag tied to the porch railing for
him every morning. On his way in the
house, he dropped the garbage bag off at the
washing
machine and went straight up
stairs to the shower as he was instructed. He
would eat dinner with
her after he was
“presentable,” as
Alice had often said.
1. What type of job does
Paul work?
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How do you
know this?
2. Describe Alice:
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What in the text
supports your description?
3. What
relationship do Paul and Alice have?
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Why do you feel this way?
Valerie opened up the letter from the
military department. She felt the pit of her
stomach drop to
the bottom of the earth
before she even opened it. She knew it was news
about John. As she
read the first
line, she thought of all of the lunches she had
packed him and all the nights she
tucked him in his bed and warded off
the nighttime monsters. The man carrying the flag
put his
hand on her shoulder. She
thought of the day that John signed up for the
military. Her tears wet
the letter.
She stopped reading after the first line.
4. What does the letter
say?
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How do you
know this?
5.
What is
Valerie’s relationship to John?
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What in the text supports your
description?
“Tommy!”
Mom called out as
she walked in the front door.
“Tommy,”
she continued shouting,
“I sure could
use some help with these groceries.
There was still no reply. Mom walked into the
kitchen to put the grocery bags down on
the counter when she noticed shattered glass from
the
picture window all over the living
room floor and a baseball not far from there.
“I’m going to
kill you,
Tommy!” Mom yelled to herself as she realized that
Tommy’s shoes were gone.
6. What happened to the window?
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How do you know
this?
7. Why did Tommy leave? <
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What
in the text supports your description?
Ruby sat on the bed she shared with her
husband, holding the letter. There was something
thrilling and, at the same time,
terrifying about the letter. Ruby read the letter
again, reminding
herself that she
really did have what it takes to reach her goal.
After all these years of waiting,
was
she finally going to take the opportunity she had
been denied those many years ago? Ruby
tucked the letter back under the
mattress.
No, today wasn’t the day to
tell Max.
She had to wait
until just the right moment; a good day
when Max was full of smiles and hope and good
humor. Maybe once spring arrived,
carrying with it the promise of sunshine and more
work, she
would muster the courage to
approach her husband.
8.
What does the letter say?
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What in the
text supports your idea?
9. Describe
Max:
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What in the text supports your
idea?
Ruby sat on the bed she
shared with her husband, holding a hairclip.
There was something
mysterious and
powerful about the cheaply manufactured neon clip
that she was fondling in her
newly
suspicious palms. She didn’t recognize the hair
clip. It was too big to be their daughter’s,
and Ruby was sure that it wasn’t hers.
She hadn’t had friends over in weeks
b
ut here was this
hairclip,
little and green with a few long black hair
strands caught in it. Ruby ran her fingers
through her own blonde hair. She had
just been vacuuming when she noticed this small,
bright
green object under the bed. Now
their life would never be the same. She would wait
here until
Mike returned home.
10. Why is Ruby so
affected by the hair clip?
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What in the
text supports your idea?
11. How has
the hairclip
affected Ruby’s
relationship ?
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What in the text
supports your idea?
12. From where
did the hair clip most likely come ?
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What in
the text supports your idea?
Making Inferences
2
Directions:
Read each
passage and then respond to the questions. Each
question will ask you to
make a logical
inference based on textual details. Explain your
answer by referencing the text.
Kyle ran into his house and slammed the
door behind him. He paused with his back to the
wall
and tried to catch his breath.
The puppy in his coat struggled to get out. Kyle
looked out the
window worriedly, but he
saw that nobody was coming. Then he let the puppy
out of his
jacket. The puppy yelped
while Kyle took the collar off of him. He threw
the collar in an old
soup can in the
trash, carefully flipping over the can. The dog
looked around nervously.
1. Why is Kyle out of breath?
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How do you know this?
2. Why is the puppy nervous?
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How do you know this?
3. Why does Kyle put the collar in a
soup can?
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How do you know this?
Anastasia sat by the fountain in the
park with her head in her palms. She was weeping
mournfully and wearing all black. In
between gasps and sobs, Anastasia cried out a
name:
“Oh...
John…”
And then her cell
phone beeped. Her hand ran into her purse and her
heart
fluttered. The text message was
from John. She opened up the message and read the
few bare
words,
“
I need to get my jacket
back from you.
”
Anastasia
threw her head into her arms and
continued sobbing.
4. What relationship do John and
Anastasia have?
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Why do you feel this
way?