1. MAKING INFERENCES

2. Authors don’t always tell every detail or give every bit of information in nonfiction or in fiction stories.

3. Readers make inferences to supply information that authors leave out.

4. How to Make Inferences 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.

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

6. Help Me Make an Inference!

7. 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!

8. 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.

9. Examples

10. What the author said + what I know = my inference
The weather had been scorching for weeks.
Summer is the hottest time of the year.
It is summer.

11. Alberto took the lemonade out of the refrigerator.
What the author said what I know = my inference
Alberto took the lemonade out of the refrigerator.
Alberto took out a pitcher of cold lemonade.
You keep things cold in a refrigerator.

12. People get out glasses when they want to drink something.
What the author said + what I know = my inference
People get out glasses when they want to drink something.
Sara wanted to drink something.
She got a glass out of the cabinet.