Transcript How do you think I feel? What made you come up with that conclusion? Let’s Talk About… Making Inferences and/or Drawing Conclusion Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com.

How do you think
I feel?
What made
you come
up with that
conclusion?
Let’s Talk About…
Making
Inferences
and/or
Drawing Conclusion
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What is drawing
conclusions or inferences?
We should
know
that
“conclusion”
and
“inferences”
are
synonymous
terms.
Taking clue words from the
text and using one’s prior
knowledge and experiences to
comprehend the importance of
what the author does not
directly tell one while reading.
☞
☞ It is a guess one makes by
putting together what one
knows and what one reads or
sees in the stories.
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Drawing Conclusion /
Inference
When you draw a conclusion
or make an inference, you
use (ask yourself) 2 things:
What do I know in my head?
What clues did I read in the story?
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What is the weather like?
What season are we in?
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Example:
Perspiration rolled down
Jack’s forehead.
•What do the words say? (clues)
•What do you know about what the
words say? (in my head)
•What do you think is happening?
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Same Example:
Perspiration rolled down
Jack’s forehead when he
heard his name called.
Now that the sentence has more details:
What do you predict is going on with Jack?
What clues do you have on
Jack feels?
Have you ever experienced the
same feeling?
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Pat went to the
grocery store.
Write down a description of what you know
about the grocery store.
From our experience we can come to
a conclusion that a grocery store is a
place with many isles, food,
shopping carts, and cash registers.
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When we infer,
we use and observe:
Facial
Expressions
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According to the book,
Four Powerful Strategies for
Struggling Readers”
by Lois A. Lanning:
Four major strategies that students need to learn in order
to broaden their comprehension skills are:
1.Summarizing
2.Creating Meaningful
Connections
3.Self-Regulating
4.Inferring
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Ways we made some
connections to making
inferences or drawing
conclusions:
 Observing my feelings.
 Observing the picture of the
tree.
 Using clues in the sentence of
Jack’s feelings.
Making a connection to a
something we know like the
Grocery Store.
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“To push beyond the literal
text, to make it personal
and three dimensional, to
weave it into your own
stories –
that is to infer.”
Keene and Zimmermann (1997)
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