Inferential Reading

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Inferential Reading

• It all Adds Up!

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What you read
What the author says
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Whats between the lines
What the author means but doesnt say
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What you know
Your experiences
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What youve learned
In school or personal reading
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Add It Up

• What you read
• What the author says
• Whats written between the lines
• What the author means but doesnt say
• What you know from experience
• What youve learned in school

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INFERENCE
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A dozen way to say Infer

• surmise
• Construe
• Deduce
• Think
• Judge
• believe

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• Conclude
• Understand
• Gather
• Figure
• Sense
• Assume

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Kinds of Inference Questions

• Feeling what emotions might this character be
  feeling?
• Cause what is the cause?
• Effect what is the effect?
• Category what is the category?
• Problem what is the problem?
• Solution what is the solution?

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Wheres the answer?

• Find it right in the text.
• what the author says
• Find it throughout the text.
• what the author means but doesnt say
• Use your brain and the text--INFER
• what you have experienced
• Use your brain--INFER
• what you have learned