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What is inference?

• Inference or inferring is like detective work -
  seeking clues, resolving mysteries, figuring out
  whodunit or what the text is about even though it
  does not explicitly state it in the text.

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• Sam ate the food on her plate without
• slowing down between bites.
• What is inferred?

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• Sam is a girlwe know that by the authors use
  of the pronoun she
• She is hungry..author implies by saying she
  didnt slow down

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• How would you revise your inference after reading
  the next sentence in the excerpt
• Her bus would be arriving in two minutes.

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• Is she really hungry? No, now I think she is in a
  hurry.
• I have put together what I know to revise my
  inferences

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Inference is..

• Given information such as a set of numbers, a
  collection of diary entries, a poem, an essay or
  a photograph, you are expected to read between
  the lines, crunch the numbers and find meaning
• Once you have interpreted and inferred, you are
  then expected to come up with new meanings -
  synthesis.

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• He put down 10.00 at the window. The woman
  behind the window gave him back 4.00. The
  person next to him gave him 3.00, but he gave it
  back to her. So, when they went inside, she
  bought him a large bag of popcorn.

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Inferences you could make

• A man and a woman on a date
• Gone to the movies
• Cost of the movie 3.00 per person
• Must have been a long time ago because of cost
  and perhaps woman behind window
• The woman doesnt want the man to pay for her
• He is nice because he wont take her money
• She doesnt want him to pay for everything so she
  buys him popcorn

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We have made inferences that were .

• Text-based from information that the author
  supplies about the text
• Knowledge-based from knowledge you have about
  the world

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Cartoons
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Editorial Cartoons
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Bumper Stickers
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MY OTHER CAR IS A PAIR OF BOOTS.
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Answer my prayers..Steal this car!
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This is not an abandoned vehicle!
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Bumper sticker on a police car

• Dont slow down on my account. But if you dont,
  it will probably hurt your account.

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Bumper sticker on a teenagers car.
A floorboard? Theres carpet on the floorboard?
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Signs posted in places
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A mom put this sign on her teenaged sons door

Enter at your own risk an unknown bacteria is
said to be growing in this room.
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A sign in a football teams locker room.
I am your coach, not your mother.
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A sign at the vets office.

• Puddles are for jumping over, not walking
  through!

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A sign at the library

• Check it outreally!

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What can help make you inferences

• Look for pronouns and figure out what to connect
  them to
• Figure out explanations for these events
• Think about the setting and see what details you
  can add
• Think about something that you know about in the
  text and see how that fits with whats actually
  in the text

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• After you read a section, see if you can explain
  why the character acted this way
• Look at how a character says something. How
  would you have interpreted what the character
  said if different words were stressed or if he
  had said something different

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• Look for words you dont know and see if any of
  the other words in the sentence or surrounding
  sentences can give you an idea of what those
  unknown words mean
• As you read a section, look for clues that would
  tell you how the author might feel about a
  character

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Question It Says I Say And So
1. Read the question 2. Find information from the text that will help you answer that information 3. Think about what you know about that information 4. Combine what the text says with what you know to come up with the answer
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It Says I Say And So Example
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Question It Says I Say And So
Why did Goldilocks break Baby Bears chair? Story says she sits down in the baby chair but shes no baby. Baby chairs arent very big because theyre for babies and she is bigger so she weighs more. And so she is too heavy for it and it breaks