Making Inferences Warm Up Q18

Choose the answer that best represents the image.

The aeroplane is _________.

• taking off

• landing

Choose the answer that best represents the image.

The girl is _________.

• waking up

• going to sleep

Choose the answer that best represents the image.

The bird is __________.

• flying off to find food

• coming back with food

He wears a blue uniform and patrols the streets to keep our streets safe.

What do you think he works as?

What makes you say so?

Sally sighed unhappily as she crawled out of bed. Her mother takes her temperature with a thermometer and it reads 38.0oC.

What do you think is happening to Sally?

What makes you say so?

Peter let out a loud sigh and looked at the clock. He tapped his foot as he waited.

Tom rushed into the classroom in a hurry and said, “I am sorry. Mrs Tan wanted to see me.”

What do you think Peter is feeling? What makes you say so?

Why did Tom apologise? What makes you say so?

What is schema?

• Background knowledge or what you already know

• Text evidence or clues in the text

• A guess

"Clues" you see or read in the text are called?

• Background knowledge

• Text evidence

• A guess

An inference is not directly stated in the text.

• True

• False

When you infer you...

• Make a random guess

• Read between the lines

• Find the answer directly in the text