ReadQuest ✕
◆ ReadQuest Learn 🎓 Teach 🗺️ Adventure 🔁 Review 📝 Practice ⋯ More 🧭 My Journey Teach the Cast Some of ReadQuest’s cast are still learning. When you teach them, YOU learn it best — catch what they get wrong, then quiz them.
✕ Teach Hunch You be the teacher — Hunch is still learning. Helping Hunch figure it out is the practice. (Hunch's progress stays on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.)
🎓 In a minute you'll be the teacher. Get ready to teach Hunch: an inference isn’t a wild guess or your personal opinion.
An inference is a conclusion you can back up with clues from the text. Before you say it, find the words on the page that point there.
Teach the connections
Show how the reading ideas connect You've helped them one at a time. The real understanding is how the ideas CONNECT — teach that next.
Hunch (inference — reading between the lines) × Anchor (evidence — cite the exact words that support it)
You infer the character is nervous, though the text never says "nervous". What does Anchor make you do?
Point to the exact words (trembling hands, glancing at the door) that support the inference — Hunch plus Anchor Nothing — a good inference needs no evidence Replace the inference with only what the text says literally
Hunch then says: “I can tell she's nervous — I don't need to point to anything in the text.” — is that right?
No — Anchor says cite the words (trembling hands, checking the door) that justify the Hunch Right, no evidence needed
The link: read between the lines (Hunch), then tie it to the words on them (Anchor).
Infer it, then prove it from the text.
Crest (main idea — the central message, the peak of the passage) × Sheaf (summarising — gather the whole passage into one tidy armful)
Why does a summary go wrong if you misjudge Crest's main idea?
Sheaf organises the summary around Crest's central message — the wrong peak makes the summary emphasise the wrong things Summarising and finding the main idea are unrelated A summary should include every detail equally, ignoring the main idea
Crest then says: “A good summary just lists every sentence in the passage.” — is that right?
No — Sheaf gathers around Crest's main idea, not every detail; the peak decides what stays Right, list everything
The link: find the peak (Crest), then gather the passage around it (Sheaf).
Find the main idea, then wrap the passage around it.
Capstone — close-read one passage together Three moves of a close read. Bring in the cast member for each.
What is the passage MOSTLY about — its central message? Who?
Who do you bring in?
Crest — the main idea Pith — vocabulary in context Frame — text structure
The text never says it, but you can tell the character is scared — read between the lines. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Hunch — inference Anchor — the evidence Plume — author's tone
Point to the exact words that prove your inference. Who?
Who do you bring in?
Anchor — cite the textual evidence Crest — the main idea Sheaf — the summary
The synthesis: find the main idea, infer beyond the literal, and anchor every inference to the words — that's reading closely.
Main idea, inference, evidence — reading with proof.
Try it in the close-read tools →
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Reading tools Reading ruler Focus mode Read aloud Bigger tiles
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Same ideas with a younger band's look: bigger type and buttons, a rounder font, slower motion. For any child who wants it.
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