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Making Inferences

Learn to make accurate guesses and draw conclusions from text and images using word and picture clues. Improve your reading skills by inferring meanings and understanding emotions. Practice making inferences with fun examples.

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Making Inferences

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  1. Making Inferences

  2. What is an inference? • Making a guess using all of the observations that you have made and the information that you know • Drawing a conclusion

  3. How do you make an 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.

  4. 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!

  5. Let’s make an 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?

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

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

  8. Help Me Make an Inference! • Use words, graphs, or picture clues to help you make a guess about what the cartoon means.

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

  10. Now try this one on your own.

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