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Reading Skill: Making Inferences Making inferences requires the students to
read a passage and then to understand
what the author is implying in the text. So
they must understand the unstated
information at the passage that the author
only hints at.
Complete the table by matching the statements with the correct inferences.
Statement Inference
1. The Incas did not use the a
wheel and did not have The Incas were very skilled at
horses either. doing construction projects.
2. The Incas used blocks that did b Since the Inca city is high in
not need any mortar when the mountains, it was difficult
they made their buildings. to get water.
c Moving the stones to build
3. The Urubamba River lay Machu Picchu was very
thousands of meters below. difficult to do.
Unit 8 | Machu Picchu
