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Making Inferences

This educational guide explores the art of making inferences—using background knowledge and clues from text or images to draw conclusions. It defines key concepts, such as schema and activating prior knowledge, and provides strategies to enhance inferencing skills. Readers will learn to ask meaningful questions and identify various sources of clues, from words to pictures. Engaging examples and interactive games will help readers refine their ability to infer, making them more adept and confident in their reading comprehension.

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Making Inferences

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  1. 0 Making Inferences

  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. Schema • Your schema is what you already know about a topic • Think about a schema as a file folder in your mind

  4. Activating Your Schema • When you start to read a text, you need to open up the file folder about the topic • This is called “activating your schema”

  5. 0 Make an Inference! • What does this image tell me?

  6. 0 Question… • What did I already know that helped me make that inference? • Did I use picture or written clues?

  7. 0 Help Me Make an Inference!

  8. 0 More Questions… • Did you use words, graphs, or picture clues to help you make a guess about what that cartoon meant?

  9. 0 Try Again! • Can he draw more than tigers? • Look up words you don’t know!

  10. 0 Make 1 more Inference

  11. 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!

  12. 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?

  13. 0 Authors vs. Readers • Authors Imply, Readers Infer. • Authors make implications that readers have to infer. • What do I mean by these statements? • Good Readers are Detectives who are always looking out for clues to help them better understand stories and pictures.

  14. 0 Game Time! • Let’s play a game to find out how good we are at making inferences: What Can You Infer?

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