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Making Inferences

Understand how to make valid inferences in stories by combining author details with your own knowledge. Learn through examples and practice exercises.

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Making Inferences

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  1. Making Inferences

  2. Authors don’t always tell every detail or give every bit of information in nonfiction or in fiction stories.

  3. Readers make inferences to supply information that authors leave out.

  4. When you make an inference, you add what you already know to what an author has told you.

  5. Valid Inferences • You have to use evidence and add your own information to make an inference. • If it is stated directly then it is NOT a valid inference. • Ex: The boy was said to go to school. • Not an inference: THE BOY WAS SAD

  6. Valid Examples

  7. What the author said + what I know = my inference The weather had been scorching for weeks. Summer is the hottest time of the year. It is summer.

  8. What the author said + what I know = my inference Al took the lemonade out of the refrigerator. Al took out a pitcher of cold lemonade. You keep things cold in a refrigerator.

  9. What the author said + what I know = my inference People get out glasses when they want to drink something. He got a glass out of the cupboard Al wanted to drink a glass of lemonade.

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