Answering a range of comprehension questions on 'Shackleton's Journey'
I can use evidence in the text to support reasoning.
Answering a range of comprehension questions on 'Shackleton's Journey'
I can use evidence in the text to support reasoning.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Reading between the lines to search for clues can help to infer meaning.
- Evidence from the text helps us to justify our inferences.
- An impression can be formed from reader’s initial feelings from reading the text, or prior experience.
Keywords
Inference - Inference means to use clues from within the text to draw conclusions.
Evidence - Evidence is the information from a text that can support or justify our reasoning.
Impression - An impression refers to initial feelings about a person, place or thing, gained from reading a text.
Common misconception
Impressions can only be formed from what readers have understood from the text.
Explain that impressions can also be based on a reader's prior experience, however reasoning should be supported with factual evidence.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
to use clues from within the text to draw conclusions
information from a text that can support reasoning
initial feelings about a person, place or thing