Making Inferences - 2

Making Inferences - 2

Making inferences

Look at these comics.

You have to infer what is happening in each one to understand the joke. When you think you know what is happening, go to the next slide and answer the question.

Where did mom’s coffee go?

Multiple Choice

Where did mom’s coffee go?

• The boy spilled it

• The boy drank it

What is happening to the penguins?

Multiple Choice

What is happening to the penguins?

• The bear is eating them.

• They are falling off the ice.

Why is this birthmark a bummer?

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Why is this birthmark a bummer?

• It is red

• It looks like a target.

What is the cat doing?

Multiple Choice

What is the cat doing?

• Feeding the fish.

• Getting ready to eat the fish.

Now read each slide and make the correct inference.

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An INFERENCE is...

• A logical conclusion
• A guess based on evidence
• Both

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To make good inferences you need to...

• read fast
• pay attention to details
• look up every unfamiliar word
• pick your nose

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It is important to learn how to make inferences because many times...

• authors don't write well
• authors communicate ideas indirectly
• authors are lazy
• authors don't think about readers

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In your daily life, you can make inferences about people by observing their behavior.

• true
• false

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Before the 1800's people didn't have right or left shoes.  They had shoes of just one shape that they used for both feet.  When people first saw right and left shoes, they laughed.  They called them "crooked shoes."  "What a silly idea," they said.  You can tell that shoes before 1800:

• were pretty
• didn't look alike
• didn't fit very well

Multiple Choice

Which sentence BEST supports the idea that Jack is feeling sleepy?

• Jack went to bed late because he was at a birthday party.

• Jackʼs eyes were droopy and his eyelids felt really heavy.

• Jack put his head down on the desk.

• Jack was not paying attention to the lesson.

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Jill couldn't believe it was only June 15th. All of her friends from school had taken summer jobs, she didn't have brothers or sisters, and after a couple of weeks, television made a very poor companion. She had already finished three books and started a fourth, a great mystery that only made her more desperate to have something to do. Jill decided it was time for her to find something to do.

Which of the following can you infer from the passage above?

• Jill will be bored for the rest of the summer.

• Jill is a very lazy person.

• Jill will look for a job.

• Jill hates the summers.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an inference that can be supported by the passage above? Tony was delighted to see the pavement disappearing under the attack of the bulldozers. The more park, the better, he thought. His delight gradually turned to concern, however, when it became clear that the construction workers were also laying the forms for new pavement, much more pavement than had been there before.

Which of the following can you infer from the passage above?

• Tony was in the construction business.

• Tony enjoyed spending time in the park.

• Tony was an avid environmentalist.

• Tony was in the construction business.

Multiple Choice

Water from California’s northern mountains is pumped south along a 400-mile canal through the farming communities of the Central Valley. Not only is this canal system a marvel of modern engineering, its water fuels the state’s economic engine. In 2006, these farms produced $31 billion-worth of food and fiber, more than any other state. By contrast, world-wide ticket sales of Hollywood movies, a more famous export of California, totaled $25 billion that year.

What inference can the reader make from this paragraph?

• The author thinks it is more important to eat than go to movies.

• Water is a precious resource and shouldn't be wasted on making movies.

• The writer thinks moving water to the Central Valley is a good investment.

• The movie industry is more important to California than farming.

Multiple Choice

Emergencies are never expected, but when they do arise, they often demand performance that requires good fitness. For example, flood victims may need to fill sandbags for hours without rest, and accident victims may be required for such simple tasks as safely changing a spare tire or loading a moving van without injury.

• The most important reason for working out is to be able to handle emergencies when they arise.

• All emergencies require physical fitness in the person who is trying to deal with them.

• In case of an emergency, being physically fit could save your life or help you save someone else's life.

• If you suffer an injury while changing a spare tire or loading a moving van, it is because you are not in good enough physical condition.

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Chip grabbed a bagel on his way out the door. "See you this afternoon," he yelled to his dad, who was getting ready to go to work.

"Got everything you need?" his dad asked. "Yep, it's all in here," Chip said, pointing to his backpack. "Good luck on that English test," his dad said. "I'll need it!"

Where is Chip going?

• to his friend's house

• to band practice

• to school

• to the library

Multiple Choice

The launch of the space shuttle Atlantis has been postponed while NASA evaluates a problem with the new robot arm on space station Alpha. The arm will be used to carry out the installation of a new U.S.-built airlock on the space station.

What can you infer from this paragraph?

• The robot space arm is critical to the space shuttle's mission.

• The robot arm was poorly constructed.

• The space shuttle experiences frequent launch delays.

• The space program is very expensive.

Try these riddles!

Multiple Choice

The more you take, the more you leave behind, what are they?

• Nothing

• Candy?

• Footsteps

• ...

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What can be measured but not seen?

• Nothing

• Air?

• Time

• ...

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If you feed me I will live, if you give me a drink I will die. What am I?

• Nothing

• Homeless man?

• Fire

• ...

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Stella's mom has three daughter one is Sophia and the other is Aryana what is the third daughters name.

• Stella

• Mellody

• Maya

• Abby

• Lyana

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what has heads and tails but no body.

• coin

• snake

• coloring pencil

• pen

• phone

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Inference Riddle: I have a head and a tail. My favorite number is 1. I am made of copper. I am lucky if you pick me up.

• I am a penny.

• I am a nickel.

• I am money.

• I am an animal.

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Inference Riddle: I come from a cane. You might say I make things really sweet! I can be white or brown, or in a powder like snow.

• I am sugar.

• I am honey.

• I am snow.

• I am cake.

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Inference Riddle: I hang out in schools and sleep with my eyes opened. I can breathe underwater. In the Little Mermaid I was Flounder.

• I am a shark.

• I am a mermaid.

• I am a turtle.

• I am a fish.

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Inference Riddle: You can plant me. You can pick me. You can pop me or make me into bread.

• I am a flower.

• I am gum.

• I am corn.

• I am wheat.

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Inference Riddle: Birds fly south for me. I am a season when people build snowmen, the days are short and the nights are long.

• I am summer.

• I am winter.

• I am spring

• I am autumn.