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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

Complete the table with the correct phrases. understand the unstated information
in the passage that the author only
hints at.
Statement Inference

1. Abby wants to find out why Many trees in the rainforest

trees in the rainforest are dying. have been dying lately ..

2. Lots of plants, including vines,

hang onto trees. Vines and figs are not the main .

A tree could be full grown when reasons that trees are dying.

a fig seed drops on it.

3. Vines and figs in the rainforest The deaths of trees are a part of .

are adapting to their habitat. the cycle of life .

the main reasons a part of the cycle of life have been dying lately

Unit 4 | Rainforest Mystery