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English · Grade 5

Literary Inference and Evidence

Through an original story about a broken tomato plant and a hard choice, learners practise quoting a text accurately, inferring characters' feelings and motives from clues, choosing the evidence that best supports an inference, and keeping what a story says separate from what a reader figures out. A short constructed response pulls it together.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 85 minutes
  • Inference and evidence check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Quote accurately from a story when explaining what the text says directly.
  • Infer a character's feelings, traits or motives by combining text clues with what you already know.
  • Choose the evidence that best supports an inference and explain how it supports it.
  • Tell the difference between what a text states directly and what a reader infers.

Lessons

  1. What the story says: quoting accurately 6 steps3 practiceabout 20 min
  2. Reading between the lines 6 steps3 practiceabout 22 min
  3. Choosing the best evidence 5 steps3 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Stated or inferred? Write a response 4 steps3 practiceabout 21 min
  5. Inference and evidence check 8 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Memory LanternsFlip glowing lanterns to find pairs that belong together.
  • Sentence TheatreYour words direct the show: change a word and the stage changes too.
  • Missing ChapterA page has gone missing. Use the clues to put the right one back.

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