Making Inference First

An INFERENCE is...

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

To make good inferences you need to...

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

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.

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

• true
• false

A VALID INFERENCE is...

• a wild guess
• never supported
• supported with evidence
• is hard to find

Turner almost wished that he hadn’t listened to the radio. He went to the closet and grabbed his umbrella. He would feel silly carrying it to the bus stop on such a sunny morning.
Which probably happened?

• Turner realized that he had an unnatural fear of falling radio parts.
• Turner had promised himself to do something silly that morning.
  
• Turner had heard a weather forecast that predicted rain.
• Turner planned to trade his umbrella for a bus ride.

Bill and Jessica were almost done taking turns choosing the players for their teams. It was Jessica’s turn to choose, and only Kurt was left. Jessica said, “Kurt.”
We can infer that _______________.

• Kurt is not a very good player.
• Jessica was pleased to have Kurt on her team.
• Kurt was the best player on either team.
• Jessica was inconsiderate of Kurt's feelings.

When apple growers talk about new varieties of apples, they don’t mean something developed last month, last year, or even in the last decade. 

• Apple growers haven’t developed any new varieties in recent decades. 
• Some varieties of apples can be developed in a short time, but others take a long time. 
• New varieties of apples take many years to develop. 

There is more quartz in the world than any one kind of feldspar, but the feldspars as a group are five times more common than quartz. 

• One type of quartz is five times more plentiful than feldspar. 
• Quartz is less common than the feldspars. 
• The most common type of feldspar is as plentiful as quartz. 

Key details __________ the text's central idea or theme.