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Mastering Inferencing Skills: Unraveling Clues to Solve Puzzles

Enhance your inferencing abilities by finding, interpreting, and connecting clues to solve problems, like a jigsaw puzzle. Learn to deduce, understand, and reason effectively in various scenarios, such as daily activities, jigsaw puzzles, riddles, and more. Discover how to extract information from visual, situational, location, word, and body language clues to draw insightful conclusions. Practice detective skills by analyzing sets of clues and solving mysteries. Improve your inferencing prowess to decode complex scenarios and situations skillfully.

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Mastering Inferencing Skills: Unraveling Clues to Solve Puzzles

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  1. Inferencing Hunting for Clues to Solve a Puzzle

  2. What is Inferencing? • Finding clues • Putting them together • Solving the problem • Like a jigsaw puzzle

  3. Here are some Synonyms • deduce • figure out • guess • interpretation • read between the lines • understand • reason • drawing conclusions

  4. Daily Inferencing • Jigsaw puzzles • Answering Riddles • Problem Solving (backtracking) • Answering questions • Reading • Math word problems • Conversing with people

  5. Finding Clues What Should We Look For? • PLACES • TIME • COLORS • TEXTURES • BODY LANGUAGE • ACTIONS • SITUATIONS OR CONTEXT

  6. Visual Clues • What clues do you see? • What do we know about the product? • What do we know about the company? • What do we know about the person who drank the drink?

  7. Situational Clues • What do we know about this picture? • What clues do you see? • What can we infer from the clues?

  8. Location Clues • What do we know about the event in the photo? • What is the mood of the event? • What other activities may be occurring at the same time or later?

  9. Word Clues • It’s clear • It’s round • It’s made of glass, metal and plastic • It has a handle • It makes things look bigger • What is it?

  10. Body Language Clues Are they having the same conversation? How do you know?

  11. Let’s Practice • What clues do you notice? • Who are the people in the commercial and what do they represent? • What emotions are you seeing from the people in the commercial? • What can we infer from this commercial?

  12. Putting the Clues Together • When we infer meaning we put together clues like a jigsaw puzzle. For example: Look at our clues! The Captaintraveled down the rough muddy road in his Jeep. • What clues are presented ? • What can we infer about The Captain?

  13. You be the Detective • You will be receiving 5 sets of clues in just a few minutes. Follow the clues to see if you can infer the answers. You will find the clues on your computers in the jigsaw puzzle program.

  14. Let’s Practice Some More! • What word clues can you find to help you solve this puzzle? • Listen to the word clues to see if you can guess who the mystery person is.

  15. Let’s Solve a Mystery • On your computers go to the following web site: http://kids.mysterynet.com/solveit/ • Read the story and let’s discuss the clues you found before you solve the mystery

  16. Let’s Recap... • Inferencing means: • Finding clues • Putting them together • Solving the problem • It is just like a jigsaw puzzle.

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