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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. Katherine Johnson started

attending college when she was 15. She was an outstanding student .

2. American astronaut John Glenn

asked Katherine Johnson to Her calculations were highly .

check the calculations for his trusted by the astronaut.

landing in person.

The American government
3. Katherine Johnson received the

Presidential Medal of Freedom. recognized the important work .
that she did.

were highly trusted by an outstanding student

recognized the important work

Unit 9 | A Hidden Figure