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8.13 Evidence & Inference Worksheet

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This Grade 8 English worksheet provides structured practice on 8.13 Evidence & Inference. Students are guided through targeted exercises that build foundational understanding, computational accuracy, and critical thinking skills.

Evidence & Inference - Select the most compelling sentences or passages that directly support an explicit statement or a reasonable inference about a story, drama, or poem; justify why the evidence is stronger than alternatives. (CCSS RL.8.1; TEKS 8.6(F); FL ELA.K12.EE.1.1; NY 8R1; VA 8.DSR.C)

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery

1. Stage directions: 'A library. A student volunteer desk with a sign: ASK ME.' 2. PRIYA helps students find books quickly, smiling the whole time. 3. When a student asks for a book about grief, Priya’s smile stiffens. 4. She walks to the shelf, runs her finger along the spines, and pauses on one title without pulling it out. 5. PRIYA: 'This one… helped my family.' 6. She clears her throat and hands the book over with both hands.

Which pair of details best supports the conclusion that Priya has personal experience with grief through her family?

ALines 3 and 5: When a student asks for a book about grief, Priya’s smile stiffens. / PRIYA: 'This one… helped my family.'

BLines 1 and 2: Stage directions: 'A library. A student volunteer desk with a sign: ASK ME.' / PRIYA helps students find books quickly, smiling the whole time.

CLines 2 and 4: PRIYA helps students find books quickly, smiling the whole time. / She walks to the shelf, runs her finger along the spines, and pauses on one title without pulling it out.

DLines 4 and 6: She walks to the shelf, runs her finger along the spines, and pauses on one title without pulling it out. / She clears her throat and hands the book over with both hands.

Solution & Explanation:Lines 3 and 5 work together to support the conclusion: Line 3 provides important context, and Line 5 gives the clearest confirming evidence. Together, they show that Priya has personal experience with grief through her family. The other pairs include true details from the passage, but they do not provide the same direct two-part support.

Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery

1. In the poem, the speaker describes a friend who 'collects laughs like badges.' 2. At lunch, the friend tells a joke about their own mistake, and everyone laughs. 3. The speaker notices the friend’s smile arrive a second late, 'like an echo.' 4. After school, the friend sits alone and rewatches the lunch video, pausing on the laughter. 5. The poem ends: 'He wears joy, but he’s still waiting for it to fit.'

Which pair of details best supports the inference that the friend's humor masks insecurity?

ALines 3 and 5: The speaker notices the friend’s smile arrive a second late, 'like an echo.' / The poem ends: 'He wears joy, but he’s still waiting for it to fit.'

BLines 1 and 2: In the poem, the speaker describes a friend who 'collects laughs like badges.' / At lunch, the friend tells a joke about their own mistake, and everyone laughs.

CLines 1 and 4: In the poem, the speaker describes a friend who 'collects laughs like badges.' / After school, the friend sits alone and rewatches the lunch video, pausing on the laughter.

DLines 2 and 4: At lunch, the friend tells a joke about their own mistake, and everyone laughs. / After school, the friend sits alone and rewatches the lunch video, pausing on the laughter.

Solution & Explanation:Lines 3 and 5 work together to support the inference: Line 3 provides important context, and Line 5 gives the clearest confirming evidence. Together, they show that the friend's humor masks insecurity. The other pairs include true details from the passage, but they do not provide the same direct two-part support.

Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery

1. The narrator swore that the old tree behind the school was 'just a tree.' 2. When a storm warning came, the narrator still ran to check it, even though the field was empty. 3. The tree’s lowest branch had snapped, and a bird’s nest lay tilted in the grass. 4. The narrator picked up the nest carefully and set it in a box from the janitor’s closet. 5. Later, the narrator told a friend, 'It’s silly, but it feels like my childhood fell down.' 6. The friend nodded and said, 'Then it mattered.'

Which pair of details best supports the inference that the tree symbolizes the narrator's childhood and past?

ASentences 1 and 3: The narrator swore that the old tree behind the school was 'just a tree.' / The tree’s lowest branch had snapped, and a bird’s nest lay tilted in the grass.

BSentences 3 and 4: The tree’s lowest branch had snapped, and a bird’s nest lay tilted in the grass. / The narrator picked up the nest carefully and set it in a box from the janitor’s closet.

CSentences 4 and 6: The narrator picked up the nest carefully and set it in a box from the janitor’s closet. / The friend nodded and said, 'Then it mattered.'

DSentences 2 and 5: When a storm warning came, the narrator still ran to check it, even though the field was empty. / Later, the narrator told a friend, 'It’s silly, but it feels like my childhood fell down.'

Solution & Explanation:Sentences 2 and 5 work together to support the inference: Sentence 2 provides important context, and Sentence 5 gives the clearest confirming evidence. Together, they show that the tree symbolizes the narrator's childhood and past. The other pairs include true details from the passage, but they do not provide the same direct two-part support.

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This worksheet is designed specifically for Grade 8 English students. It aligns with educational standard ELA.8.13 (Practice evidence and inference with grade 8 reading literature questions.).