1. Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions

2. Making Inferences Writers won’t tell you everything. Sometimes you need to figure things out on your own. You need to learn how to use everything you read and everything you already know. Taking something you read and putting it with something you already know to make an inference.

3. Making Inferences What I learned +What I already know = Inference For example: The woman reached into her pocket for the keys. She clicked the button, opened the door and put her parcels in the back seat. What was the woman doing? You can infer that the woman was shopping.

4. Drawing Conclusions “Putting two and two together”

5. Drawing conclusions You take bits of information and come up with something else from what you know. For Example: Imagine you see a man nearly 6’6’’ tall in an airport. All you know is that he is tall. But suppose you saw this man with 10 -15 other tall men, all of them carrying gym bags and wearing basketball shoes. What conclusion could you draw?

6. He’s probably part of a basketball team! Facts Fact #1 man 6’6’’ tall Fact #2 10 – 15 other tall men Fact #3 gym bags and basketball shoes Conclusion Basketball team!!

7. Riddle 1 I am blood, though never red, And those I’m found it never bled. I move beneath their rugged skin And carry life to leaf and limb.

8. Riddle 2 Unique among beast, I hold humans in thrall Noblest of creatures and greatest of all In form I am equine with flowing white mane, Confusing to those who have pondered in vain On seeing my beard and my spiraling spear Rising in triumph twixt left and right ear- Now think, gentle reader, and tell me my name.

9. Riddle 3 I am a frown without a face, A lazy lone parenthesis; I am an arc above a shoal, And bowed abode of toll and troll.

10. Riddle #4 I am a roof, though some complain I give no shelter from the rain. I am a bowl placed upside down And cover mountaintop and town. I am a window, giving light, Yet home to darkness and to night.