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Making Inferences

Learn how to make inferences in reading by using word and picture clues, common sense, and your own experiences. Discover the importance of filling in missing details to understand a story better.

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Making Inferences

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  1. 0 Making Inferences

  2. 0 Inference • Sometimes a writer will leave certain details out of a story to make it more dramatic or funny. In these cases, it is up to the reader to draw his/her own conclusion based on the information given. These conclusions are known as inferences.

  3. How to Make an Inference • Use • what you read about the characters and plot details • common sense • Your own experience to fill in the missing details.

  4. 0 Make an Inference! • What does this image tell me?

  5. 0 Question… • What did I already know that helped me make that inference? • Did I use picture or written clues?

  6. 0 How Do Good Readers Make Inferences? They use: • 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!

  7. 0 Make Another Inference • Miss White was watching her students play in the playground. Jack 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?

  8. How do you know that you are being asked to make an inference? • One of these verbs will be used: • *suggest(Which answer does the text suggest is …) • *imply(Which answer does the author imply is …) • *infer (What can you infer from the text as the reason….) • *with which would the author agree (With which answer would the author agree as to…) • *which sentence would the author most likely use…(Which sentence would the author most likely use to explain…)

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