The document discusses how to draw conclusions from passages. It provides an example comparing the size of teeth from ancient sharks that lived 5 million years ago to modern great white sharks. It notes that the ancient shark teeth would cover your whole hand while modern teeth fit in your palm. It guides the reader to conclude that since older sharks had much larger teeth, the ancient sharks must have been larger animals, drawing on the knowledge that larger animals generally have larger teeth.

1. Drawing Conclusions Detective

2. 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.

3. 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 …………………..

4. 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 shark’s tooth is so much larger than the modern shark tooth?

5. 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

6. 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.

7. The End