PPT-Making Inferences using Narrative Text

Making Meaning Good readers ask questions while they read Sometimes the questions have answers that are directly stated in the text Ex In Van Gogh Café we know that the main characters name is Clara We know this because the book states here name . B5.3 1 Comprehension B5.3 MAKING INFERENCES ( BEGINNING LEVEL ) Drawing Inferences You have been drawing inferences all your life. You began to make many kinds of inferences when you were a baby. Yo Through . Pictures. What can we infer about this person just from their grocery list?. Possible Inferences. They have a dog (rawhide bones). They are hygienic/cleanly (Toothpaste, . Qtips. , wipes, Dish detergent). Intriguing Literature Forces the Reader to Ask Questions. Discuss. Why would an author choose to leave information out of his story? . 2. How do we, as readers, reliably fill in this information? . To Make an Inference . Narrative Text. Narrative Text. Narrative text is often fiction (not true). It tells a story.. It contains a setting.. It contains a plot.. It contains characters.. It contains a conflict and a resolution.. What is an Inference?. An inference is something that you conclude based partly on evidence and partly on your own knowledge. . When you make an inference, you read something, add what you know to it, and draw a conclusion.. How do you make them. ?. What is textual evidence?. Copyright © 2015 The Teacher Writing Center, a division of SG Consulting, Inc. .  www.grammargallery.org. Warm-Up. Look at the picture. . What do you see? . Reading Skills: Making Inferences from Details. The Scarlet Ibis. by. James Hurst. Feature Menu. The Scarlet Ibis. by. James Hurst. The Scarlet Ibis. Introducing the Story. I thought myself pretty smart at many . FreeWritingWorksheets.com. Narrative Details. Pieces of information that help the reader picture the actions of a story are called . narrative details. . . No narrative details = boring writing. The telephone rang. The girl picked it up and listened. Then she smiled and shouted. . HEADLINE. Body. text,. body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text, body text. retrospect. . You find out where events have led in its very first sentence: "The other night at dinner, Sheba talked about the first time that she and the Connolly boy kissed." We are told this by Barbara, the 60-something history teacher with whom Sheba is living in the wake of a scandal. Bell Work- Start a new page, and answer this in your notebook. . . Look at this picture. In your science notebook, write a one paragraph story that explains how this picture came to be. Use the facts you see in the picture to help write your story. . Key terms: . deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, . narrative . perspective, . literary and social context. , superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery. . LQ: . Teaching American History . In Miami-Dade County. December 14, . 2012. Fran . Macko, Ph.D.. fmacko@aihe.info. Framing the Session. Why . are history texts often difficult for students to comprehend?. Ernest Davis. Cognitum. 2016. July 11, 2016. TACIT . Toward Annotating Commonsense Inferences in Text. First text: Theft of the Mona Lisa. On a mundane morning in late summer in Paris, the impossible happened. The Mona Lisa vanished. On Sunday evening, August 20, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's best-known painting was hanging in her usual place on the wall of the Salon .