1. 10/20/2015AVRSB1

2. 10/20/2015AVRSB2 Use This Strategy... Making inferences is about going beyond what is printed on the page. It is about “ reading between the lines ”. Inferring helps us answer the questions in our head. Making inferences is about going beyond what is printed on the page. It is about “ reading between the lines ”. Inferring helps us answer the questions in our head.

3. 10/20/2015AVRSB3 Two Kinds of Inferences #1 Combine your ideas and experience with what the author says to make meaning. Details in the text Details in the text + Personal knowledge and experience = Understanding and answers to questions

4. 10/20/2015AVRSB4 #2 Combine information from two or more different places in the text to make meaning. Details early in the text Details early in the text + Details later in the text = Understanding and answers to questions

5. 10/20/2015AVRSB5 Try It… “ We ’ re on a steep section of the Lhotse Face when a group coming down from Camp Three shouts for us to get off the rope. I dig my ice ax into the 45-degree slope and watch as a climber and five Sherpas carefully lower a sled-stretcher. The bundled sleeping bag and the bit of twisted face with a froth of icy blood on its beard slide by me. ” Excerpt from: Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin

6. 10/20/2015AVRSB6 Try It… “ We ’ re on a steep section of the Lhotse Face when a group coming down from Camp Three shouts for us to get off the rope. I dig my ice ax into the 45- degree slope and watch as a climber and five Sherpas carefully lower a sled-stretcher. The bundled sleeping bag and the bit of twisted face with a froth of icy blood on its beard slide by me. ” Excerpt from: Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin I wonder where this is? What is Lhotse Face? I wonder what is happening? Why did they have to get off the rope? Lhotse Face… this sounds like it might be in another country. Ice ax… climber… sherpa… This is on a mountain. I know because these are terms used in mountain climbing This must be a rescue. He must be badly hurt because he needs a stretcher and has blood on his face. Maybe he fell.

7. 10/20/2015AVRSB7 The author never tells us this is about mountain climbing… Or that mountain climbing is a risky or dangerous activity… Why then do we make these inferences?