Making Inferences

MAKING INFERENCES

We'll use comics from "The Far Side" and "The Ghosts of Flight 401

When you combine your own experience and information from a text or picture to draw a conclustion that is NOT DIRECTLY STATED in the text, you are making an INFERENCE.

Look at this comic.

Poll

Why is the dog still so fat and happy after being lost at sea for days?

• He's eaten his owner.

• He's just happy to see people.

Look at this comic.

Poll

What is happening to the penguins?

• They are swimming away.

• The polar bear is eating them.

Look at this comic.

Poll

What is the cat doing?

• Cooking the fish.

• Making friends with the fish?

Look at this comic.

Poll

Why is this deer's birthmark a "bummer?"

• It's a target; hunters will see him more easily.

• It's red.

Look at this comic.

Poll

What will they use for a basketball?

• a rock

• the guy's big head