This document discusses making inferences when reading. It explains that inferences involve taking what is known and using clues to draw conclusions that are not directly stated. Readers use both picture and text clues as well as their own background knowledge to make inferences. The document provides examples of making inferences from images and short passages and emphasizes that good readers ask questions and use multiple clues to infer meanings beyond just the literal text or image.

4. Making Inferences

5. Inference
• Take what you know and make a
guess!
• Draw personal meaning from text
(words) or pictures.
• You use clues to come to your own
conclusion.

6. Make an Inference!
• What does this image tells you?

7. Ask yourself these
question…
• What clues can I use?
– Picture or written
clues?
• What did I already
know that helped me
make that inference?

8. Try this!

9. Questions…
• Did you use picture
or written clues?
• What did you
already know that
helped you make
that inference?

10. Try this!
“…and the
ants kept
carrying them
away, until
they were all
gone. That’s
what I
thought.”

11. Questions…
• Did the written clues “…and
help you to make a the ants
better guess? kept
carrying
them
away,
• What did you already until they
know that helped you were all
gone.
make that inference? That’s
what I
thought.”

12. How Do Good Readers
Make Inferences?
They use:
1. Word/text clues
2. Picture clues
3. ASK themselves questions!
4. Use what they already know

13. Try this!
Miss White has recess duty. Jacob
finds a frog, picks it up, and runs
over to show it to Miss White. Miss
White screams, jumps, and runs as
fast as she can into the school.

14. Miss White has recess duty. Jacob finds a
frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to
Miss White. Miss White screams, jumps, and
runs as fast as she can into the school.
What I Read + What I already know = What I can infer
Miss White + Teachers have = Miss White is a
Has recess recess duty teacher
duty.
Miss White + Some people are = Miss White is afraid
screams and afraid of frogs. of frogs.
runs as fast as
she can when she
saw the frog.

15. Try this again!
Oh I had a balloon.
It was round, it was red.
Such a lovely balloon,
Almost as big as my head.
But I heard a loud noise,
And I looked around to see.
For I wondered just what,
Made that loud noise at me.

16. Oh I had a balloon.
It was round, it was red.
Such a lovely balloon,
Almost as big as my head.
But I heard a loud noise,
And I looked around to see.
For I wondered just what,
Made that loud noise at me.
What I Read + What I already know = What I can infer
The character + Children likes balloon = The character may
has a balloon be a child
The character + Balloon can burst = The character’s
heard a loud balloon burst
noise

17. The End