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Making Inferences

0. Making Inferences. 0. Inference Text evidence + personal knowledge = educated guess. Examine facts from the text. Draw personal meaning from text (words) or pictures, and add your own knowledge. Use clues to fill in gaps and come to your own conclusion. 0. Make an Inference:.

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Making Inferences

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  1. 0 Making Inferences

  2. 0 InferenceText evidence + personal knowledge = educated guess • Examine facts from the text. • Draw personal meaning from text (words) or pictures, and add your own knowledge. • Use clues to fill in gaps and come to your own conclusion.

  3. 0 Make an Inference: What does this image tell me?

  4. 0 ASK YOURSELF: • What facts from the image did I consider? • What did I already know that helped me make that inference?

  5. 0 What is happening here?Make an inference and discuss!

  6. 0 How Do Good Readers Make Inferences? • Word/text clues • Picture clues • Define unknown words (CONTEXT CLUES) • Look for emotion (feelings) • Use personal experience and knowledge • Look for explanations for events (cause and effect relationships) • ASK questions while investigating text

  7. 0 Authors vs. Readers • Authors IMPLY while readers INFER. • Authors make implications that readers have to infer to make connections. • What do I mean by these statements? • Good readers are detectives who are always looking out for clues to help them better understand stories and pictures.

  8. Practice      The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!     The turkey's popularity comes from the American people's love of eating the bird for special occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas.     The wild turkey we usually see in photos or pictures is not the same as the domestic turkey that many Americans serve at Thanksgiving.     Domestic or tame turkeys weigh twice what a wild turkey does and are raised on farms for profit. Most domestic turkeys are so heavy they are unable to fly.     Wild turkeys (Meleagrisgallopavo) live in woods in parts of North America and are the largest game birds found in this part of the world. They spend their days foraging for food like acorns, seeds, small insects and wild berries. They spend their nights in low branches of trees.adapted from http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/turkey.htm

  9. What can the reader infer about domestic turkey farms? A. They provide the turkeys with a lot of food. B. They must protect the turkeys from hunters. C. They are covered with acorns. D. They can only be located in the woods.

  10. What can the reader infer about Benjamin Franklin? A. He had great respect for the wild turkey. B. He was a vegetarian (someone who doesn't eat meat). C. His favorite food was turkey sandwiches. D. He raised turkeys for profit.

  11. What can the reader infer about wild turkeys? A. They are a danger to humans. B. They hurt the environment by eating acorns. C. They are able to fly. D. They weigh more than domestic turkeys.

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