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Evidence Detectives: The Garden Update

Read a fictional school notice, separate stated facts from an inference, and support your thinking with paragraph evidence.

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Support an explanation of explicit information and an inference with relevant textual evidence.

RI.6.1 · 2017 NC ELA SCOS; applicable 2026–27
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