What this printable helps you do
Explore a fictional character's motivation through evidence-based questions. Keep the reading available while you work and record page, chapter or paragraph references. The purpose is to explain your thinking through specific details, not to find a single response that every reader must share. Separate what the text states from your inference, then reread the surrounding passage to check whether the interpretation still fits.
What is on the page
Four generous card-style areas hold related parts of the task. Use the reference line to connect each part with an object, version or source. Keep the page intact as a single record or copy the headings into a longer notebook. The four headings are Question for character, Textual clue, Possible response, Uncertainty. Add a subject identifier and date at the top so the page can be understood when you return to it.
How to use it
Draft a question about a choice and use a passage to support a possible answer. Start with one example rather than filling the whole page at once. Use ordinary language you will understand later and add a reference where a note depends on another source.
A practical example
A character leaving early might have several motives; record which clue favors your interpretation. This illustrates how to begin; the downloadable page is blank so you can use your own subject, materials and observations.
Review before you reuse it
Label the response as an inference rather than an actual quotation. Read the finished page from the perspective of someone who was not present. Clarify an abbreviation, mark an unanswered question and identify the next small action if one is needed.
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