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

• Your favourite character
• A longer vocabulary list
• Text evidence from the passage

What is an inference?

• A wild guess with no clues at all
• A conclusion from clues plus what you know
• A direct quote copied from the text

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

Circle one:   True   False

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

• Quote both and hope for the best
• Quote neither and argue louder
• 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 lost on the ice
• That they feared the cold

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 uses too many quotations
• 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, because faces never matter
• Both readings hold equally well