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Making Inferences

0. Making Inferences. 6 th Grade Reading/Language Arts. 0. Inference. Take what you know and make a guess! Draw personal meaning from text (words) or pictures. You use clues to come to your own conclusion. 0. Make an Inference!. What does this image tell me?. 0. Question….

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Making Inferences

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  1. 0 Making Inferences 6th Grade Reading/Language Arts

  2. 0 Inference • Take what you know and make a guess! • Draw personal meaning from text (words) or pictures. • You use clues to come to your own conclusion.

  3. 0 Make an Inference! • What does this image tell me?

  4. 0 Question… • What did I already know that helped me make that inference? • Did I use picture or written clues?

  5. 0 Help Me Make an Inference!

  6. 0 More Questions… • Did you use words, graphs, or picture clues to help you make a guess about what that cartoon meant?

  7. 0 Try Again! • Can he draw more than tigers? • Look up words you don’t know!

  8. 0 Make 1 more Inference

  9. 0 How Do Good Readers Make Inferences? • Word/text clues • Picture clues • Define unknown words • Look for emotion (feelings) • Use what they already know • Look for explanations for events • ASK themselves questions!

  10. 0 Make Another Inference • Miss White has recess duty. Jacob finds a frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to Miss White. Miss White screams, jumps, and runs as fast as she can into the school. • What can you infer from this passage? • What are the “clues” in this passage?

  11. Make Another Inference • Miss White has recess duty. Jacob finds a frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to Miss White. Miss White screams, jumps, and runs as fast as she can into the school.

  12. 0 Authors vs. Readers • Authors Imply, Readers Infer. • Authors make implications that readers have to infer.

  13. So, what am I saying? Good Readers are Detectives who are always looking out for clues to help them better understand stories and pictures.

  14. 0 Detective Time! • Let’s determine just how good we are at making inferences:

  15. If your best friend is not in school one day, you can infer that: They are out sick or on vacation.

  16. If a house says, "FOR RENT" outside, you can infer that: The house needs new occupants.

  17. If you see a fire engine on your street, you can infer that: Someone had a type of an emergency.

  18. If you get fired from your job, you can infer that: You did something wrong.

  19. If you forget to return your library book, you can infer that: You will have to pay a fine.

  20. If you see someone with a cast on their leg, you can infer that: They broke their leg.

  21. If you see someone fall off of their bike, you can infer that: They lost their balance.

  22. If you go to a Mexican restaurant, you can infer that: They will specialize in Mexican food.

  23. If your cat is standing by its food bowl, you can infer that: Your cat is hungry.

  24. If you forget to study for a test, you can infer that: You might not do well.

  25. LITERARY VOCABULARY

  26. inference a determination you make based on evidence in a text and from our own experiences

  27. prior knowledge what you already know

  28. detail supports your idea

  29. fact information that can be proved true

  30. clue a piece of evidence that leads someone towards a solution of a problem

  31. ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

  32. adjust to change something so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation

  33. battle an effort to reach a goal or objective

  34. cast to cause to move or send forth by throwing

  35. colossal unusually large

  36. firm securely fixed in place

  37. gingerly showing a close cautiousness to avoid danger or trouble

  38. judge to decide the size, amount, number, or distance without actual measurement

  39. pointer a piece of advice or useful information given by an expert

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