PPT-Making Inferences

Main Idea Student Bitten A college student in southern China was bitten by a panda after he broke into the animals enclosure hoping to get a hug   The student was visiting the park with classmates on Friday when he jumped the 6 ½ foot fence around the pandas habitat. 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). Making Inferences. How do you make an inference?. Making Inferences. We all make inferences when we take what we already know (schema), and then take clues from the text, and reach an assumption or conclusion!. Chapter 1. Section 1. Thinking Like a Scientist. pages #5 – #12.. Scientists use skills such as:. . 1. . observing. 2. . inferring. 3. . predicting. 4. . classifying. . and. 5. . making models. . 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 . Reading between the lines. Authors vs. Readers. Authors Imply, Readers Infer.. Authors make implications that readers have to infer. . What do I mean by these statements?. Good Readers are Detectives who are always looking out for clues to help them better understand stories and pictures.. 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.. Grades 3 – 5. © 2013 Texas Education Agency / The University of Texas System. “ Inferring is the bedrock of comprehension, not only in reading. We infer in many realms. Our life clicks along more smoothly if we can read the world as well as text. Inferring is about reading faces, reading body language, reading expressions, and reading tone as well as reading text.”. Mrs. . Davidovicz’s. . 2011 – 2012 Class. GPS: . GPS: ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student. f. Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events and supports them with evidence from the text. . 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? . E. vidence…. 1/15/2015. Making Inferences. We make inferences all the time whether we realize it or not. Good readers make inferences while reading when we predict what will happen next or ask ourselves why character is behaving a certain way.. Chapter 1. Section 1. Thinking Like a Scientist. pages #5 – #12.. Scientists use skills such as:. . 1. . observing. 2. . inferring. 3. . predicting. 4. . classifying. . and. 5. . making models. . Making Inferences 0 What can you interpret about Amy? Amy babysits almost every day after school. She often has to say no to families who want her to babysit because she is already busy. What can you interpret about their activity? Amy babysits almost every day after school. She often has to say no to families who want her to babysit because she is already busy.. What can you interpret about their activity?. Josh woke up early on Saturday morning and looked outside the window. The sun was out, and the heat was excruciating. His dad called to Josh and said, “It is a perfect day, don’t forget to bring a towel!” Josh grabbed a towel, and they quickly left the house..