In the formula, what do you add to background knowledge?

• Your own opinion about the characters
• A list of new words from the passage
• Text evidence from the passage

What is an inference?

• A prediction made before you read a word
• Clues plus background, put together
• A line copied exactly from the passage

Writers explain every little thing, so readers never need to infer.

Two phrases seem to back your idea, but only one truly does. What should you do?

• Quote both and let the reader decide
• Drop both and trust your memory instead
• Quote the exact words that carry it

Henson writes that his party were explorers driven by a thirst for discovery. What does that detail support?

• That they felt proud of the journey
• That they were tired of the ice and cold
• That they feared they would never return

Which of these readings should you reject?

• One built from several passage details
• One the passage cannot support
• One with the most words behind it

Leo argues a poem is about space travel, but admits no line mentions space. What is wrong?

• His reading strings quotations together with no argument
• His reading is too short to be right
• His reading needs imagination more than the words

A detective notes a suspect's face change when one name is spoken. He knows the name, or he feels nothing. Which holds?

• He recognises it, carried by the noticed change
• He feels nothing, since the name means nothing to him
• Both readings fit the clue equally well