Inferences
What is an inference?
Educated guess- combining facts with outside knowledge
What are Harry Potter's best friends names?
Ron and Hermione
What is a main idea?
The whole point of whatever is being read.
When do you use a comma?
lists, separating numbers, addressing someone directly, introducing someone, before quotation marks.
What is Mrs. Francis' first name?
Molly
What is NOT included in an inference
Guess, opinion
Name 3 professors
McGonagall, Snape, Quirrell, Flitwick, Sprout
Where can you find the main idea of a paragraph?
In the first sentence or after putting details together to create an inference.
What is wrong with this sentence:
She looked at him and said "You really do not belong here"!
She looked at him and said, "You really do not belong here!"
What is Mrs. Francis' dogs name?
Blueberry
Create an Inference:
A character uses words like "stat" and "emergency" and "prep" and "operation."
They work in the medical field
Who decides where the children will be housed at Hogwarts?
The Sorting Hat
What is the main idea?
Dolphins are mammals that live in the ocean. Mammals are different than fish, reptiles or birds. As a mammal, dolphins breathe oxygen, even though they live in water. Because they are mammals, a dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby, unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs. A dolphin mother also feeds her baby milk like other mammals.
Dolphins are mammals.
Correct the sentence:
Spot my dog is the faster runner in the hole neighborhood.
Spot, my dog, is the fastest runner in the whole neighborhood.
How many students are on the roll in this class?
3
Create an inference:
The man sat alone, staring through the park, looking at all the happy people together, longing for the day he had that.
He lost someone that made him happy.
What are Harry's parents names?
Lily and James Potter
What is the main idea?
Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds. They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
The Emerald City was a beautiful city all in green.
Correct the sentence:
Yesterday I went to the store walked down the street and ran into an old friend who said i looked like i really aged
Yesterday I went to the store, walked down the street, and ran into an old friend who said I "looked like I really aged."
What day is christmas break starting?
December 18th
Create two inferences:
The wind was cool, and blew the loose leaves across the sidewalk. The man walked intently trying to make it to his appointment on time, he couldn't miss it again. But then he heard an ice cream truck and couldn't resist stopping.
1- it is fall (leaves and cool wind)
2- The man is not good with time management, gets distracted easily.
What does the spell Wingardium Leviosa do?
Causes things to levitate.
What is the main idea?
Larry lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out. He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke’s patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself. Staring up into the green gloom of the horse-chestnut trees above him, he dreamed dreams of all sorts, and was just imagining himself tossing on the ocean in a voyage round the world, when the sound of voices brought him ashore in a flash. Peeping through the meshes of the hammock, he saw the Marches coming out, as if bound on some expedition.
Larry was in a bad mood
Correct the sentence:
If you want to be my friend you have to always be happy bring me cheesecake 3625 times a year and tell me once a day you are the best person ever
If you want to be my friend you have to always be happy, bring me cheesecake 3,625 times a year, and tell me once a day, "You are the best person ever!"
What is Mrs. Francis' favorite color?
Pink