Intepreting What You Read

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How do you MAKE an INFERENCE?

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How do you make inferences?

• Take what you SEE – (textual/visual evidence)

• Add it to what you ALREADY KNOW– (prior knowledge)

• Making an INFERENCE includes…– Drawing a CONCLUSION/GENERALIZATION– Also—making a PREDICTION

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Making Inferences Practice!

For each image you see, use the INFERENCE PROCESS

to make an inference…

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Imagine this bumper sticker on the back of a car—

What can you INFER about the car’s owner?

(bumper sticker)

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Imagine this bumper sticker on the back of the SAME car--

What ELSE can you INFER about the car’s owner?

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Imagine THIS bumper sticker, too—on the back of the SAME car…

What ELSE can you INFER about the car’s owner?

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Here’s a picture of the CAR’S OWNER:CAR’S OWNER:

•What can you INFER about the owner from this picture?•WHERE do you think his car is PARKED?

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Making Inferences with TEXT

While reading the following chapter excerpt, use the INFERENCE PROCESS to make inferences about what you read…

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Look at this book’s cover—and make some inferences:inferences:-What type of story do you think it is? (genre)-What might it be about? (plot)

Make a

Book Cover

INFERENCE

before reading!

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Making Inferences about the TEXT:

• How did your predictions (from the book cover) compare to what the book is about so far?

• What do you think is going to happen next?

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Prediction and

Inference: 13

What is prediction?

• A prediction is what you think will happen based upon the text, the author, and background knowledge.

• Prediction is an educated guess as to what will happen.

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What is inference?• Inference is reading all of the clues

and making your best guess.• Inference is similar to prediction but

they are not the same.• When inferring, you are using all clues

to draw conclusions about what is being read.

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What is the difference between prediction and inference?

• When you make predictions, your prediction will be proven by the end of the story. When inferring, you may or may not know the answer to your question by the end of the story.

• When predicting, you are focusing on what will happen in the story. When inferring, you are making a guess about what a character will do, how a character feels, and other judgments.

• Prediction = answered by the end of the story• Inference = may or may not be answered by the end of

the story

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When do you make predictions?

• As a reader, you can make predictions a text BEFORE reading.

• As a reader, you can make predictions a text DURING reading.

• In other words, make predictions before and during reading.

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When do you make inferences?

• As a reader, you can make inferences DURING reading.

• As a reader, you need to ask yourself questions as you read and make inferences based on what you have read. These inferences may not be about what will happen next.

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How do you make predictions?• Ask yourself what is going to happen

next in the story.• Ask yourself what else could happen in

the story. • To make predictions before and during

reading, you must question yourself.

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How do you make inferences?• Inferences are made by questioning during

the story.• Ask yourself about why a character does

something, how a character feels, etc. • To make an inference during reading, you

must question yourself.

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Questions to predicting in a text?

• What is happening in the story?• What will happen next?• What clues have led you to think that?• What else could happen next?

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Questions to inferring in a text?• What will happen next and why?• What clues have led you to think that?• Why did that character do that?• How does that character feel?• Why did the author write this story?• Inference allows for many more questions

than prediction.

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Your turn to predict and infer the text.• At this point, a selected text will

be read to the class. Be sure to pause as you read the text to allow for students to turn and talk. Show the next slide while reading the text.

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Now your turn to predict/make inferences about the text.

• Turn to a partner and discuss the text. • Be sure to make a prediction about what

will happen next. • Be sure to make an inference about why a

character may have done something. • Remember, predicting and inferring are

ways to make sure you understand a text.

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Conclusion• Inferring requires the reader to ask questions

during reading. Predicting requires the reader to ask questions before and during reading.

• Making inferences/predictions are a way to check for understanding.

• Making inferences/predictions require the use of additional strategies to ensure comprehension.

• Your prediction will be proven/disproved by the end of the reading. Your inference may or may not be proven.

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Observations and Inferences

Warm up?

Look at the drawing. What do you notice and what do you think happened?

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How does your story change?

Observations and Inferences

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How does your story change?

Observations and Inferences

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What do you observe?

What do you infer?

Compare what you think now to your earlier written accounts.

Observations and Inferences

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Observations and Inferences

Observations are what you noticeInferences are your reactions, thoughts or explanations

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Write one observation.

Write one inference

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Summary

• What the difference is between an observation and an inference.

• How people can have different inferences about the same observations.

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End of SlidesAny Questions?

If not, Class is Dismissed

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