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ELA6th GradeThe student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

The Standard

make inferences and use evidence to support understanding

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students combine details from a text with what they already know to reach a logical conclusion. They point to specific evidence and explain their reasoning.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students draw a reasonable conclusion about a character, event, or idea that the author does not state directly. They select relevant text evidence and explain how it supports that conclusion.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat an inference as a guess based only on prior knowledge. They may copy a sentence as evidence without explaining how it supports their conclusion.
How to Assess It: Give students a short paragraph with an unstated character feeling. Ask them to name the feeling, cite one detail, and explain the connection.

Lesson moves

Place clue cards in envelopes, then have groups combine two clues to infer what happened and record their reasoning.
Ask, "What can we infer about the character's motive, and which two details support that inference?"
Play Evidence Match by pairing inference cards with supporting quotations, then have partners explain each match.
Examine a short product review and infer the writer's opinion from word choice, ratings, and specific comments.

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