Inferring Characters' Feelings and Motives
English · Reading Comprehension · procedural
Draw inferences from independently-read texts, such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence from the text
What mastery looks like
- Infer a character's feelings or motives from their actions and dialogue (e.g. 'She slammed the door — how is she feeling?')
- Justify an inference by quoting or pointing to specific evidence in the text
- Distinguish between what is explicitly stated and what must be inferred from clues in the text
Check your understanding
After Inferring Characters' Feelings and Motives reads a chapter of a novel, can they explain how a character was feeling and why — pointing to something the character said or did as their evidence?
Prerequisites
Required first
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