October 5 Glue all of the sheets into your spiral notebook.

Inferential and Literal Questions in NonFiction and FIction LITERAL questions/thinking: Questions where the answers will be stated directly in the text. The reader simply needs to read closely to answer this type of question. . INFERENTIAL questions/thinking: Questions where the answers are NOT stated directly in the text. The reader needs to use the stated and implied information/clues from the text to draw a conclusion and infer the answer.

Types of Inferential Questions Main/central idea Author’s message/purpose Supporting details Vocabulary Organizational patterns, text structure, text features Cause/effect Fact/opinion Prediction Author’s writing style /choices and decisions as a writer

Tips for Answering Reading Comprehension Questions Always highlight AFTER you have read the passage and are going back into the text to answer the questions. Highlight the literal answers that you find in the text. Highlight information/clues that help you to infer an answer. When reading answer choices, cross off the ones that you immediately know are incorrect (the distractors). Typically, you will be left with two solid choices. Then go back into the text find information or evidence for your answer. When reading the question, highlight or underline the main points of the question. What is it really asking? Rewrite it in simple terms if you need.  Read all text including titles, charts, graphs, tables, headings, captions, documents, etc

Copy the following chart into your notebook Copy the following chart into your notebook. In the left column, make a list of strategies that you can use to help you when you are reading a difficult book or passage. In the right column, write how it can help you. Strategy Reason “Chunk” the text. Break it into chunks to read in smaller amounts so I can understand it one line or paragraph at a time.