1. Making Inferences

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

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

5. Help Me Make an Inference!

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

7. How Do Good Readers Make Inferences? They use: 1.Word/text clues 2.Picture clues 3.Define unknown words 4.Look for emotion (feelings) 5.Use what they already know 6.Look for explanations for events 7.ASK themselves questions! They use: 1.Word/text clues 2.Picture clues 3.Define unknown words 4.Look for emotion (feelings) 5.Use what they already know 6.Look for explanations for events 7.ASK themselves questions!

8. Make Another Inference Mr. Story brings his class outside. Ms. O’Hara finds a frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to Mr. Story. Mr. Story screams, jumps, and runs as fast as he can into the school. What can you infer from this passage? What are the “clues” in this passage? Mr. Story brings his class outside. Ms. O’Hara finds a frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to Mr. Story. Mr. Story screams, jumps, and runs as fast as he can into the school. What can you infer from this passage? What are the “clues” in this passage?

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

10. Drawing Conclusions

11. When you draw a conclusion you use 2 things: What you know in your head. and What you’ve read in the story. A conclusion is the decision you come to when you put these two together.

12. I sleep in a crib. I drink from a bottle. I cannot walk or talk. Who am I? I know babies sleep in cribs. I know babies drink bottles. I know babies can ’ t do these things yet. Must be a baby!

13. Put me on your feet. I will keep you warm and dry. Wear me when it rains. I know you wear socks and shoes on your feet. Both of these keep you warm, but only shoes keep you dry. What do you wear, on your feet, when it rains?

14. I am white. You need me every day. You drink me when you are thirsty. I can make a moustache. What am I? What did you know in your head? Lots of things are white! You need a lot of things. What is white and you drink? AND, It makes a moustache!