Inferencing

WALT: Practice inferencing skills.

Use the text to answer these questions. Give evidence from the text to justify your answers.

1. What sort of text is this? How do you know?Biography, because is says what SHE does.

2. What is the purpose of this text? (to inform, persuade etc). How do you know? To talk about what being a marine biologist is like

3. Who’s the author? How do you know? Does not say but its mainly described by a reporter.

4. Why does Susan say, “It’s not all fun and games”?Because Being a marine biologist is harder and it takes a lot of time and effort

5. Why does Susan say, “But it is really what you make of it.” What does she mean?   Its not all fun its alot of hard work

6. Why did Susan study longer than most people need to for a Marine Biologist?She wanted to know more about the job she was taking on.

7. What advice does Susan give for people wanting to become a Marine Biologist?“You will need to find out how much education the job you are interested in will require”

8. Do you think she is encouraging people to become a Marine Biologist? Why/why not? No,Because she is saying a lot of bad things about the job.

9. Why does Susan think Marine Mammals are exciting to study?“You will need to find out how much education the job you are interested in will require”

10. What is Susan researching/learning about Whales? She is researching Whales

We have read a Report/Article/Biography and inferences it and answered these questions

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