Activities

1. Identify textual evidence from an informational text that helps you to determine what the text is about.
   
   
2. Identify examples of logical evidence-based inferences of an informational text.

3. Describe several pieces of evidence an author includes in an informational text that strongly supports your understanding of the text.
   
   
4. Describe and explain an important inference you made while reading an informational text, and identify several pieces of text evidence that strongly supports your conclusion.

5. Analyze what a text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations you can draw from a text by using strong and accurate text-based evidence.
   
   
6. Evaluate the strength and effectiveness of text-based evidence used to support an analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Student identifies textual evidence from an informational text that helps him/her to determine what the text is about. The student recognizes and understands explicit information in a text in order to determine the subject of the text.
   
   
2. Student identifies examples of logical evidence-based inferences of an informational text. The student uses both implicit and explicit information from a text to make logical evidence-based inferences. The inferences identified by the student should display actual text evidence and the student’s background or outside knowledge regarding the text.
   
   
3. Student describes several pieces of evidence an author includes in an informational text that strongly supports his/her understanding of the text. Text evidence is the information from a text a reader uses to understand what the text is about. The student selects several pieces of evidence that best supports their understanding of the text. The evidence identified should come from all sections of the text in order to display an understanding.
   
   
4. Student describes and explains an important inference made while reading an informational text, and identifies several pieces of text evidence that strongly supports your conclusion. The student uses both implicit and specific information from the text to make an inference. The student’s description and explanation of his/her inference shows a clear understanding that although a text does not directly state certain information, clues or other evidence can be used to make an inference. Common inferences of the informational text may include, but are not limited to, an author’s position and point of view on a specific subject or topic.
   
   
5. Student analyzes what a text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from a text by using strong and accurate text-based evidence. The student analyzes a text by identifying textual evidence that strongly and accurately supports what the text is about. The identified evidence is then used to create an inference, conclusion, or generalization about the text that is not explicitly stated within the text.
   
   
6. Student evaluates the strength and effectiveness of text-based evidence used to support an analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text. The student’s evaluation should display a logical relationship between explicit text information and an inference, conclusion, or generalization drawn from the text.