Hunting for Clues to Solve a Puzzle Inferencing Hunting for Clues to Solve a Puzzle

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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

You be the Detective Look at the picture and answer the following questions… 1. How many people do you see? 2. What gender are these people? 3. What are they doing? 4. What is the man grabbing? 5. What other items do you see? 6. What is the weather in this picture? 7. Where are the people standing?

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

Now… Let’s Solve a Mystery I will be reading you a short story. While I do this… Look closely at the following image Write down details that you see Do the details you found match up with the story? If not, hypothesize what really happened. Elaborate on your reasons.