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Inferencing

Reading Strategy-Inferencing

TermDefinition
Inference Reading between the lines
Inference text clues +background knowledge =educated guess
Inference activating your schema to figure out
Inference it is not stated directly in the text, but you are using information that is either explicit or implicit
Textual Evidence Used to support our ideas or opinions about a text
Textual Evidence Can be paraphrased or quoted directly from the text
Textual Evidence Combining what the text says with your own thoughts
Textual Evidence This must be cited to validate (make believable) your opinion.
Theme opinion or lesson expressed throughout a piece of text
Theme presented through characters thoughts, feelings, conversations or experiences
Theme rarely stated explicitly, mostly implied
Theme "Crime is always punished."; "Slow and steady wins the race."; "Revenge" and "Friendship" are examples of this.
Summary Brief statement with the the main idea of a text
Summary Make a text shorter
Summary Give the "gist" or "essence"
Summary synonym for synopsis
Implicit something that is understood but not clearly stated
Implicit synonym of implied
Implicit antonym of explicit
Implicit synonym of understood
Explicit means stated directly
Explicit synonym for specific
Explicit antonym for implicit
Explicit leaves no doubt about the meaning
Prediction to foretell or forecast
Prediction a statement about what might happen in the future
Precidtion synonym for forecasting
Prediction Use of background knowledge separates this from inference
Created by: frsimm2000
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