Inferring

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What is inferring?

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Inference

What is inferring?

Clues from what you read

What you already know

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What do you need to make an inference?

Gather clues

Read between the lines

Reach conclusions on the basis of evidence and reasoning

Ask “author and me” questions What is the author trying to infer? What do I get from reading and what I already know?

Synonyms for inference are: deduction, conjecture, speculation and presumption

What do you need to do?

O Sometimes authors don’t give you all of the information.

O Use clues from what you read and what you know to make an inference

What is the difference between prediction and inference?

O When you predict, you don’t find out until the end of the story.

O When you infer, you may or may not know the answer at the end of the story.

O Predicting focuses on what will happen in the end.

O Inferring you make a guess as to what the character will do and what the character feels and other judgements

When do you make inferences?

O During reading

O Need to ask questions as you read and make an inference on what you have read

O This may not be what happens next.

O Ask what the character is feeling, or why a character does something.

What type of questions should you ask to infer?

O As you read, you begin to better understand the characters and why they do what they do

O What will happen next and why?O What clues do you have to think that?O Why did the character do what he/she did?O What was the author trying to get the

reader to do?O There are more questions that can be

asked when you infer instead of predict.

InferenceO Readers should take clues from the

story, combine the clues with what they already know to infer answers

O Whenever you read, use what you already know to make inferences.

One Inference StrategyInference Question

“It says “What does the text say?

“I say” Using prior knowledge

“And so”Based on…I can infer…..

Write the questions

List all of the clues from the text

What do you already know from your own experience?

Combine clues from what you read with what you already know and you will be able to answer your question.

Let’s try oneO Pedro wanted to get out of bed, but he

couldn’t. His entire body felt weak and it hurt to move. His head was on fire, but he felt like a chunk of ice. He reached for a glass of orange juice and carefully swallowed it. He wished his mom would come back from the kitchen with the chicken soup and crackers.

O Let’s infer. What is going on? Where is Pedro? How do you know?

AnswerO Pedro wanted to get out of bed, but he

couldn’t. His entire body felt weak and it hurt to move. His head was on fire, but he felt like a chunk of ice. He reached for a glass of orange juice and carefully swallowed it. He wished his mom would come back from the kitchen with the chicken soup and crackers.

O Clues you found in the paragraph. What do you know about being sick?

O That’s how you could infer the answer.

Let’s try some more- “I don’t get it”

Sometimes people say this when there’s a piece of information they don’t know that’s keeping them from making an inference. In this comic you have to know what a “symptom” is. A symptom is a sign or indicator of something. Calvin is trying to show his mom signs of being sick but tells her so many silly ones that she knows he’s faking it.

Think about the hidden information in this comic that you have to figure out in order to “get it”....

The teacher sends Calvin to the principal when he takes the gum out of his mouth and offers to share it instead of understanding that his teacher is sarcastically reminding Calvin that he shouldn’t be chewing gum. He tries to blame the teacher for the trouble he’s in with the principal.

What inference did you need to make to understand this cartoon?

What does this comic infer?What clues do I see?What do I know?

What clues to I see?

What do I know?

What do I infer?

Making an inference means knowing why Jon would need his receipt.