Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences

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Do writers always tell their readers exactly what they mean all the time, or do they allow their readers to draw conclusions and discover at least some of the meaning on their own?

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They allow their readers to draw conclusions and discover at least some of the meaning on their own.

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You draw many inferences in your everyday life?

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TRUE

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Which of the following statements is true? Writers never leave out any information in their texts. Writers always tell their readers everything that is going on. Writers always make their meanings perfectly clear. Writers sometimes seem to leave out pieces of information in their texts.

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Writers sometimes seem to leave out pieces of information in their texts.

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____ in fiction is a reasonable conclusion or judgment about some element of a story based on the information given in the story and the reader's personal knowledge of how the world works.

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An inference

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What is the first step readers must take to draw an inference?

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Look for clues in the text

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What is the second step readers must take to draw an inference?

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Think about what they already know from their own experience in the real world

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What is the third step readers must take to draw an inference?

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Put the pieces together in a logical way to produce a reasonable conclusion

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Where is Sophie?

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Inside preparing to go outside.

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What is Anna doing?

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Baking cookies.

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What does it mean to draw a conclusion?

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To draw a good guess based on evidence and detail from a source, as well as your own personal experience.