1. Making Inferences 6 th Grade Reading/Language Arts 2011-2012

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 picture or written clues? What did I already know that helped me make that inference? Did I use 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. Try Again! Can he draw more than tigers? Look up words you don’t know! Can he draw more than tigers? Look up words you don’t know!

8. Make 1 more Inference

9. How Do Good Readers Make Inferences? 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! 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!

10. 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? 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?

11. 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.

12. Authors vs. Readers Authors Imply, Readers Infer. Authors make implications that readers have to infer. Authors Imply, Readers Infer. Authors make implications that readers have to infer.

13. So, what am I saying? Good Readers are Detectives who are always looking out for clues to help them better understand stories and pictures.

14. Detective Time! Let’s determine just how good we are at making inferences:

15. If your best friend is not in school one day, you can infer that: They are out sick or on vacation.

16. If a house says, "FOR RENT" outside, you can infer that: The house needs new occupants.

17. If you see a fire engine on your street, you can infer that: Someone had a type of an emergency.

18. If you get fired from your job, you can infer that: You did something wrong.

19. If you forget to return your library book, you can infer that: You will have to pay a fine.

20. If you see someone with a cast on their leg, you can infer that: They broke their leg.

21. If you see someone fall off of their bike, you can infer that: They lost their balance.

22. If you go to a Mexican restaurant, you can infer that: They will specialize in Mexican food.

23. If your cat is standing by its food bowl, you can infer that: Your cat is hungry.

24. If you forget to study for a test, you can infer that: You might not do well.

26. a determination you make based on evidence in a text and from our own experiences

27. what you already know

28. supports your idea

29. information that can be proved true

30. a piece of evidence that leads someone towards a solution of a problem

33. to change something so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation

35. an effort to reach a goal or objective

37. to cause to move or send forth by throwing

39. unusually large

41. securely fixed in place

43. showing a close cautiousness to avoid danger or trouble

45. to decide the size, amount, number, or distance without actual measurement

47. a piece of advice or useful information given by an expert