INFER Strategy
What kind of question require you to figure out the main idea or big message or theme?
What is big picture questions?
This kind of sentence has one independent clause (subject and a verb)
What is a simple sentence?
This is the word for putting information into your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
Fill in the blank: A ________________ is a group of words with a subject and verb that cannot stand alone.
What is a dependent clause?
What is Bitzer?
Name the three types of questions under "Think and Seek." Hint: BP, P and C
What are big picture, predicting and clarifying questions?
Fill in the blank: the _______________________ is the person, place, thing, quality or idea of a sentence.
What is the subject?
This is the word for a word that has the same meaning or a very close meaning to the original word.
What is a synonym?
Name the conjunctions that show the relationship of the dependent clause to the independent clause.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
Shaun the Sheep and Rowan Atkinson call this country home.
What is England/Great Britain/United Kingdom?
Name this type of question: The answer is not in the passage.
What is a think and seek question?
What kind of sentence has two or more independent clauses?
What is a compound sentence?
This is one or two words describing what a paragraph is about.
What is a topic?
This kind of sentence has two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What are compound-complex sentences?
There are this number of Shaun the Sheep episodes according to wikipedia.
What is 150?
What is a factual question?
Name the term for the FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
What is the coordinating conjunction?
This is the big idea that the paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
These words are the FANBOYS.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
Mr. Bean's live-action show started in this year.
What is 1990?
What does INFER stand for?
Interact with the questions, Note what you know, Find the clues, Explore any supporting details, Return to the question
This kind of sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This is a statement that provides specific information about the main idea and topic.
What is a detail?
This kind of punctuation can be used to join two independent clauses of a compound sentence.
What are semicolons?
This is the name of the actor who plays Mr. Bean.
Who is Rowan Atkinson?