Mystery: Inferences from Text

We're working on inferences from text. Read the passage out loud first, then have your child read it back. Ask questions in your own words before they answer the worksheet. Underline together to find clues in the text — this is a real reader's habit.

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Tell each other one interesting thing you noticed today. That's a 'detail' — your brain is already working.

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   Read this passage: "If you walked into a market in Marrakech, you would smell saffron and oranges. In a market in Bangkok, you might step around bowls of noodles and fresh fish. In Mexico City, vendors call out the names of fruits you have never seen. Every market is different. But every market is also the same. People come to talk, to bargain, to buy enough food for the week. A market is a place where strangers meet by accident. They learn each other's faces. Sometimes they learn each other's names." Q: Name three cities mentioned.

   Parent tip: Read aloud once, then ask your child to read it back. Underline answers together.
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   Using the same passage, answer: What might you smell in Marrakech?

   Parent tip: Point back to the line in the text that proves the answer.

1. 1

   What is the main idea?
2. 2

   What does the word 'bargain' mean here?
3. 3

   Why does the author say strangers 'meet by accident'?
4. 4

   Have you been to a market? What did you notice there?
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   Write one sentence that retells what happened in your own words.
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   Find one adjective (a describing word) in the passage. Write it here.
7. 7

   Find one verb in the passage. Write it here.
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   Draw a picture of one moment from the passage.
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   What feeling does the passage give you? What word in the text supports that feeling?
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    Underline one sentence you think is the most important. Why?

What is one thing you'll remember from this passage tomorrow?