Core Skills Workout: Making Inferences

FICTION: Into the Storm, pages 17-22

September 2017

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Making Inferences
Making an inference means using clues from the text to figure out something the author doesnt tell you directly.

Directions: Answer the questions or follow the directions that appear in italics to fill in the chart. We completed the first
row for you.

Clues Inference
1. F ind two passages in the story that support the Tucker is athletic and brave.
inference on the right.

He could jump like a flea on the basketball court . . . He

could swim like a fish and surf. (p. 18)

As that big black cloud spread across the sky, the wind
and waves grew rougher. Wanting to help the man, but
concerned about his own safety, Tucker hesitated, then
straddled his surfboard and, using his hands for oars,
paddled toward the raft. (p. 20)

2. When Tucker first spots Mr. Nibbles, he What can you infer about Mr. Nibbles from this
describes him as floating on a red raft like a description?
huge jellyfish. (p. 19)

3. Find two lines that support the inference on the LaShana Mae admires Tucker.
right.

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 Core Skills Workout: Making Inferences
FICTION: Into the Storm, pages 17-22
September 2017

Clues Inference
4. W
 hen Mr. Nibbles sees Tucker paddle by on his F rom this exchange, what can you infer about how
surfboard, Mr. Nibbles says, Youre little to be Tucker is feeling in this moment?
way out here, aint ya, Squirt? In response,
Tucker shakes his head and keeps going. (p. 19)

5. O
 n page 21, LaShana Mae says, If you run Why does LaShana advise readers to carefully ask
into Tucker Tugboat Willis, ask him about the Tucker about meeting Richard Etheridge?
rescue, and hell tell you. Then, carefully, ask
if he ever met Richard Etheridge.

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