1. EXTENDING COMPREHENSION ELICITING ENCOURAGING ELABORATING INFERERENCE SKILLS

2. INFERENCE IS: THE PROCESS OF CREATING A PERSONAL MEANING COMBINING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE & NEW INFORMATION TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS & INTERPRET CREATING A MEANING NOT STATED EXPLICITLY GOING BEYOND LITERAL INTERPRETATION TO OPEN A WORLD OF MEANING CONNECTED TO OUR LIVES USING OUR OWN EXPERIENCES & OBSERVATIONS TO MAKE SENSE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT TO UNDERSTAND AN IDEA OR PIECE OF INFORMATION BY USING OTHER INFORMATION

3. INFERENCE HELPS STUDENTS ACHIEVE ON ITEMS WHERE THE ANSWER IS BUILT RATHER THAN FOUND. DRAW CONCLUSIONS & INTERPRET FACTS MAKE CONNECTIONS WITHIN FUND OF KNOWLEDGE MAKE CRITICAL OR ANALYTICAL JUDGMENTS MAKE REASONABLE PREDICTIONS AS THEY READ REMEMBER, REVISE & REAPPLY WHAT THEY LEARN HAVE REFLECTIVE RESPONSES TO WHAT THEY READ

4. INFERENCE SKILLS ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES CAUSE / EFFECT STORY RETELLING ILLUSTRATE ACT OUT DRAW CONCLUSIONS MAKE JUDGMENTS STORY MAP WORD WEBS CONTEXT CLUES TIME & ORDER COMPARE / CONTRAST CLASSIFY / CATEGORIZE BRAINSTORM STRATEGIES INQUIRING PREDICTING PARAPHRASING EVALUATING CONDENSING ORGANIZING SUMMARIZING SEQUENCING INTERNALIZING MAKING CONNECTIONS CLARIFYING THINK ALOUD / EXPLAIN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

5. GETTING STARTED ENGAGING THE STUDENT RELATIONSHIP RELEVANCE RIGOR

6. I CUES INQUIRY INTERACTION IMAGINATION INTUITION INTER-RELATION IDENTIFICATION ILLUSTRATION INTERPRETATION INTEGRATION