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This document discusses making inferences from text or images. It explains that making an inference involves using clues to draw your own conclusion about something. It provides tips for making good inferences, such as using word clues, picture clues, defining unknown words, looking for emotions, using prior knowledge, and asking questions. The document encourages practicing making inferences and provides an example passage to infer from.

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Making Inferences Power Point

This document discusses making inferences from text or images. It explains that making an inference involves using clues to draw your own conclusion about something. It provides tips for making good inferences, such as using word clues, picture clues, defining unknown words, looking for emotions, using prior knowledge, and asking questions. The document encourages practicing making inferences and provides an example passage to infer from.

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Making Inferences

BEL260
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.
Make an Inference!
What does this image tell me?
Question
What did I already know that
helped me make that inference?
Did I use picture or written clues?

Help Me Make an
Inference!


More Questions
Did you use words, graphs, or
picture clues to help you make a
guess about what that cartoon
meant?
How Do Good Readers Make
Inferences?
They use:
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!

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?
Game Time!
Lets play a game to find out how
good we are at making inferences:
What Can You Infer?

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