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Mastering Inferences: The Art of Reading Between the Lines

Learn how to make accurate inferences by analyzing text and visuals, understanding unknown words, and exploring emotions. Improve your reading comprehension skills!

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Mastering Inferences: The Art of Reading Between the Lines

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  1. INFERENCES Making a guess as to why

  2. Inference • Denotation: • A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning • The process of reaching such a conclusion: "order, health, and by inference cleanliness”

  3. What can you infer? This person is relaxing because they are on vacation Dude fell because it is wet and he lost control of his bike

  4. In your own words • Based on the denotation and examples, define INFERENCE in your own words • An inference is when you guess at what is going on • An inference is reading between the lines • An inference is thinking more in depth about what the author writes or what you see

  5. How Do Good Readers Make Inferences? They use: • Word/text clues • Picture clues • Define unknown words • Look for emotion (feelings) • Use what they already know • Look for explanations for events • ASK themselves questions!

  6. What can you infer?

  7. What can you infer? • Ms. White has recess duty. Jacob finds a frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to Ms. White. Ms. White screams, jumps, and runs as fast as she can into the school. • What can you infer from this passage? • 2. What are the “clues” in this passage?

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