1. Topic: Making Inferences Essential Question: How does making inferences help when reading? Responses Notes Inferring *Use what you know to figure out meaning that was not directly stated *What you know + what you read=inference

2. Topic: Making Inferences Essential Question: How does making inferences help when reading? Responses Notes Inferring *Sometimes need to use personal experiences *Ex: relate to a character’s feelings or actions

3. Topic: Making Inferences Essential Question: How does making inferences help when reading? Responses Notes Inferring *You do not have to have HAD the experience to infer *can use what you have learned in school, from family, friends, magazines, books, TV, Movies

4. Topic: Making Inferences Essential Question: How does making inferences help when reading? Responses Notes Fiction *Setting-use description of surroundings to infer (weather, animals, plant life, etc) *Characters-think about what people do, say, look like to infer about emotions and situations Nonfiction *Use the facts from the text and your own knowledge to fill in gaps the author left *Use the text features, (headings, pics, etc)

5. Topic: Making Inferences Essential Question: How does making inferences help when reading? Responses Notes Cause and Effect *Cause-infer about why something happened *Effect-infer about what happened as a result -Use your knowledge to draw these conclusions