1. Generalizations
EQ - How do you find details from the text to develop a generalization?

2. What picture comes to mind when you see the word fruit?
General idea made up of specific details

3. Fruit Generalizations
A general rule drawn from looking at specific facts and figuring out what they have in common
Fruit

4. What picture comes to mind when you see the word apple?
Specific details
Banana?
Orange?

5. Generalizations
A general rule drawn from looking at specific facts and figuring out what they have in common
SPECIFIC DETAILS
We usually go on vacation to the beach in the summer.
My cousins come with us to the beach during the summer.
My best friend went to the beach last summer.
Our neighbors are going to the beach this summer.
GENERALIZATION
People always go to the beach in the summertime.

6. Generalizations
A general rule drawn from looking at specific facts and figuring out what they have in common
SPECIFIC DETAILS
The pumpkin pie my mom made last week was too sweet.
The cherry pie I ate last Christmas was very sweet.
GENERALIZATION
All pie is too sweet.

7. A Generalizations is two parts
Specific Details
+ What they have in Common
(their similarities)
= An Opinion Rule which is called a Generalization

8. Generalizations must be based on facts.
But – they do not have to be true!

9. Generalizations
Generalizations can be valid or invalid. (true or false)
If a generalization is valid, it is well supported by facts, experience and logic.
If a generalization is invalid, it is not supported by all the facts. Experience and logic tell us it cannot be true.

10. How to check for Valid Generalizations
Supporting facts
Several Examples
Past Experience
Logic and Reasoning
Everyone loves winter.
Most government buildings are closed on Holidays.

11. Other examples… Everyone loves pizza. No one likes school.
People are very gullible. (easily convinced)
All birds have wings.
Valid Or Invalid?

12. Words Commonly Used in Generalizations
Always
Generally
Never
Everyone
No one
All

13. Generalizations Explicit generalizations: Generalization is Stated
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Implicit generalization: Implied ideas/not stated in the text (you infer the generalization)

14. Practice Specific details Generalizations Valid?
Court houses, courts and city hall are closed on July 4th and Christmas.
Most government buildings are closed on holidays.
My mother sneezes every time my cat comes into the room.
My mother is ________ to my cat.
The last 10 bird I saw had wings
All birds have _________.
I have 10 cousins in North Carolina that go to the beach in the summer

15. Practice, Practice, Practice…
Cassie winced in pain as the boy behind her pushed her aside to run after his friend. She scowled after him and rubbed the part of her arm that his book-bag had slammed into. “Sixth graders are so immature,” she thought to herself.
What is the generalization in this passage?
Is it valid or invalid?
Is it explicit or implicit?