Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Georgia Standards:
7.T.T.2.a
Analyze expository techniques used to present and design content, including main ideas, facts, statistics, key details, information from text features, and a sense of closure. (I)
7th Grade Reading - Inferences in Informational Texts Lesson
Inference
An inference is an educated guess the reader makes about something in the text.
Sometimes, authors may not say something directly in the text, but will give readers hints or clues about what they mean using details. When this happens, the reader has to infer what the author means.
What you infer about a text must be supported by details.
To make an inference:
Look for clues in a text about something the author is trying to tell the reader but does not directly say
Identify clues that give the reader a hint, or support, the inference