Drawing Conclusions Detective

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Drawing ConclusionsDetective
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Your Title

• What do you know about the selection?
• What do you know from your own life?
• How is this related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.

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To draw a conclusion from a selection look for
supporting details and combine the details with
what you know. To help ask yourself the
following I conclude that .. because the
paragraph said that and I know that
..
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Shark Tooth If you held a tooth from a shark that
lived 5 million years ago, it would cover nearly
all your hand. If you held a tooth from a modern
great white shark, it would fit in the palm of
your hand. Why do you think the very old
sharks tooth is so much larger than the modern
shark tooth?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• older shark teeth cover your hand
• modern shark teeth fit in the palm of your
  hand
• What do you know from your own life and how is
  this related to the selection?
• smaller animals have smaller teeth
• Draw a conclusion.
• older sharks have bigger teeth so are larger
  animals

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Samson liked to lie on the windowsill. He
especially liked to lie there on a sunny day.
The sunlight felt good on his body. But if
Samson saw a mouse, he could move like
lightening. He would chase down the mouse like a
mighty hunter. Is Samson a person? If not, what
is he?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• Samson likes to lie in the sun.
• He chases mice.
• What do you know from your own life and how is
  this related to the selection?
• Cats like to lie in the sun and chase mice.
• Draw a conclusion.
• Samson is a cat.

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Winslow watched his father cutting grass. The
job was taking forever. Winslow felt impatient.
His father told him that they would go fishing
that afternoon. But his father said that they
would fish after the grass was cut. Why is
Winslow feeling impatient?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• What do you know from your own life and how is
  this related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.

Winslows father told him they would go fishing
after he cut the grass.
When we wait to do something we want to do it can
seen like a long time.
Winslow is impatient because he doesnt want to
wait to go fishing.
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The harpsichord is the cousin of the piano. The
harpsichord makes a rich sound, like a piano.
However, it is different from the piano. The
player cannot make the music loud or soft as
easily as on a piano. Loudness and softness make
the music more interesting. After pianos were
invented, harpsichords were nearly forgotten for
more than a century. Why were harpsichords
forgotten after the piano was invented?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• What do you know from your own life and how is
  this related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.

A piano makes soft and loud music that is
interesting and a harpsichord can not do these
things.
We like to listen to music only if it is
interesting to us.
Harpsichords were forgotten because pianos made
better music that was more interesting,
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Ricardos four-year-old brother, Manuel, got a
set of water color paints. They were a birthday
present. Manuel had a lot of fun painting in his
room. Then Manuel heard his mother coming up the
steps. He hid under his desk. Manuels mother
screamed, What happened to these walls? What
happened to the walls?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• What do you know from your own life and how is
  this related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.

Manuel is four. He got a set of water color
paints. He had a lot of fun painting his room.
Four year olds paint things they shouldnt.
Manuel painted on the walls with his watercolors,
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There was a grasshopper and an ant. During the
summer the ant worked hard all day long. She was
very tired, but happy, at the end of each day.
The ant knew she would have food and a warm home
during the winter. The grasshopper didnt do any
work at all. Instead, he played guitar under a
shady tree. What will happen to the grasshopper
when winter comes?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• What do you know from your own life and how is
  this related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.

The ant worked hard all day collecting food for
the winter. The grasshopper did not work.
Food the ant and grasshopper eat in the winter
will be gone during the winter.
When winter comes, the grasshopper will be hungry
and cold.
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The night before the speech, Harrison stayed up
all night. He practiced his speech in front of a
mirror. He knew he would never be able to
sleep. Why couldnt Harrison sleep the night
before his speech?
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• Draw a Conclusion
• What do you know from the selection?
• What do you know from your own life and how is it
  related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.

Harrison stayed up all night. He practiced his
speech. He knew he wouldnt sleep.
Giving a speech can make you nervous.
Harrison was so nervous that he couldnt sleep.
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Lets Review the Steps to Drawing Conclusions

• What do you know from the selection?
• What do you know from your own life?
• How is this related to the selection?
• Draw a conclusion.