This Slideshare includes an Inference graphic organizer including images that can be used to make inferences. Students will be detectives by using clues and what they already know to make an inference.

1. Making Inferences Using
Images
ELAGSE5RI1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly
and when drawing inferences from the text.
MOMT

2. Making Inferences
Readers who make inferences use the clues in the image or text
along with their own experiences to help them figure out what is
not directly stated.
Clues: Evidence
from the Image
Schema:
What I Know
Inference
MOMT

3. Let’s Play Detective
1. What clues do you notice ?
2. What do you already know?
3. What inference can you make?

4. There can be more than one inference.
1) It’s raining outside.
1) Someone has gone fly fishing.
1) Someone is fixing a busted pipe.
Are there more?

5. What can you infer?
1) What just happened? 2). What’s the setting? 3) How might the weather be?

6. What clues can you use? What do you know?

7. What’s happening here? How do you know?

8. Your Turn To Be the Detective!

9. What can you use to make an inference?

10. Are you having fun making inferences?

11. How far are you away from making an inference?

12. Are your detective skills polished?

13. Have you practiced making inferences?

14. Have you mastered making inferences?

15. Ticket out the door.
1) What clues do you see?
2) What background information do you already know?
3) What inference(s) can you make?