Inferential Reading Skills- Let's Practice
| Site: | Saylor Academy |
| Course: | ESL003: Upper-Intermediate English as a Second Language |
| Book: | Inferential Reading Skills- Let's Practice |
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| Date: | Thursday, 3 April 2025, 10:53 PM |
Description
buttons.Activity 1
Now that we know more about inferential reading, let’s put this knowledge into practice. The activities will allow you to see how well you understand making inferences and distinguishing facts and opinions. If you have a difficult time identifying reading strategies and narrative elements, you may return to review the lesson information and then try these practice activities again.
Read the passage and identify the main idea.
Which sentence is the best main point for this paragraph?
Source: Tara Horkoff, https://opentextbc.ca/writingforsuccessh5p/chapter/reading-comprehension-techniques/
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Activity 2
Watch this video on inferencing to learn how to identify what a text is implying rather than directly stating it.
Source: Excelsior Online Writing Lab, https://owl.excelsior.edu/orc/what-to-do-while-reading/inferencing/
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Activity 3
Fact or Opinion?
Source: Lauralynn Tomassi, https://h5pstudio.ecampusontario.ca/content/2048 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Activity 4
Source: McDaniel College Writing Center, https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/_documents/academics/support/learning-centers/writing-reading-learning-ctr-rockville/student-resources-tech/fact-vs-opinion.pdf This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Activity 5
Fact, Opinion, Objective, or Subjective?
Source: Cindy Gruwell and Robin Ewing , https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/ctar/chapter/fact-or-opinion-choosing-using-sources-a-guide-to-academic-research/#h5p-16
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Activity 6
Read each passage and choose the answer that best completes the thought of the passage. Think about why the other answers would not be a correct conclusion to the passage.
Source: Tara Horkoff, https://opentextbc.ca/writingforsuccessh5p/chapter/reading-comprehension-techniques/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.