Unit Three Reading Skills

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Unit Three Reading Skills

• Narrow Inferences and Writers view Purpose

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Narrow Inference Questions

• Inference Questions require you to draw
  conclusions that are not stated by the author.
• Inference questions often use the words
  conclude, infer, suggest, or imply.
• Common phrases that indicate inference
• The passage suggests.
• Xxxxx implies..
• Xxxx comments imply.
• Xxxx most directly supports the conclusion that.
• Xxxx would likely argue that.
• It can be inferred that.

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Strategy for Narrow Inference

• Find and re-read the part of the passage that
  relates to the question
• Ground yourself in the details
• Predict and Eliminate answer choices

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Writers View Questions

• Writers view questions ask you to consider some
  aspect of the passage from the authors
  perspective. They can be worded in many ways
  which can make them harder to recognize. However,
  they all make a reference to what the author was
  thinking or feeling as she wrote- her opinion or
  point of view.
• The passage is written from the point of view
  of
• Which of the following best describes the
  authors approach to presenting.
• The metaphor about swimming seems to suggest the
  narrators disappointment with.

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Strategy for Writers View

• Review your summary statements.
• Analyze the Authors approach toward characters
  or topics mentioned in the question stem.
• Find the answer choice that is consistent with
  the authors approach.
• Use predict and eliminate with the answer
  choices.