Inference Practice

When making an inference, the most important thing is...

• What you know about the topic
• The topic of the text
• The characters in the text
• Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text.

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Rachel was on her way to volunteer at the animal shelter.  She was very excited!  She really liked dogs.  Her brother was allergic to dogs, however, so she was rarely around them.  Rachel had a lot of fun playing with the puppies, but after her shift, itchy bumps appeared on her arms.
It is likely that:

• Mosquitoes bit Rachel
• Rachel is allergic to dogs, too
• Rachel fell in poison ivy
• Rachel was already sick

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How to Draw Inferences

1. You look for clues in the text, little pieces of information that seem to relate to the missing information or your question.

2. You think about what you already know from your own experience in the real world.

3. You put these two pieces of the puzzle together in a logical way to produce a reasonable conclusion that supplies the missing piece of information or the answer to your question.

Drawing an inference requires your background knowledge and information from the text?

• TRUE

• FALSE

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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.

• A clue

• A question

• An inference

• An implication

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“Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.” “That,” said a very young man, “that ... very clear indeed.” “Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,” continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. “Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it. But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea.

It is most likely that the people listening...

• understand what is being said

• do not completely understand

• are helping with the research

• do not believe the man

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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?

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

• They tell their readers exactly what they mean all the time.

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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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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today.

The reader can assume stories from the past...

• will soon be unpopular

• were not very exciting

• only centered around a moral

• scared children to be good

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Carter was walking down the street carefully avoiding the puddles because it rained the night before. His mom just bought him a new Nike hoodie and he wanted to show it off at school. Suddenly, a car drove into a puddle and splashed his sweatshirt.

What can you infer about the weather?

• It is currently raining.

• It is chilly out.

• The sun is shining.

• Carter hates the rain.

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Cara and Tom were setting up decorations for the school dance on Friday. They needed people to volunteer to help sell tickets throughout the week. Tom said there would be donuts for all the students who signed up to sell the tickets.

What can you infer about the outcome of the after school meeting?

• Cara and Tom threatened students to help out with the dance.

• Cara is in love with Tom and wants to ask him to the dance.

• Students showed up because they wanted free donuts.

• Students wanted to volunteer because they enjoyed helping out.

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