Grade 5 · Reading · Lesson 14

Draw conclusions from context

Authors do not always tell you everything in plain words. They drop CLUES — small details, actions, and lines of dialogue — and they trust YOU to put the clues together. When you combine the clues in the text with what you already know about the world, you are drawing a conclusion. A conclusion is a smart, supported guess about something the writer never said directly.

What this lesson teaches

1Define a conclusion as a smart guess built from clues plus what you know
2Identify context clues such as actions, dialogue, and details near a word or event
3Combine textual clues with background knowledge to draw a logical conclusion
4Distinguish a supported conclusion from a wild guess that ignores the text

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