Making Inferences

What is an inference?

What are context clues?

What can you infer from this sentence?

You see a baseball and broken glass around a window you can infer that.

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What are the possible inferences from this sentence?

Benni got a bad grade on her test.

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What can you infer from this picture?

Michael has clothes all over the floor of his bedroom. Underneath the clothes on his floor is a pizza box with crusts in it. Underneath the pizza box is bunch of pieces of a board game that Michael played and didn't put away. Michael sat on his unmade bed with his shoes on and played video games all night.

What character trait does Michael demonstrate?

Eric's car broke down in the woods and his phone wasn't getting a signal. He used his car antenna as a spear and caught fresh salmon. He started a fire with sparks from his car battery, and he ate the cooked salmon while waiting for help.

What character trait does Eric demonstrate?

Justin grabbed the leash and quickly put it around Tooli's neck. He stormed out the door with Tooli coming right behind.

He said, "Hurry up, Tooli. You're always so slow." Justin kept his head down and walked quickly down the road, not speaking to anyone that he saw.

What can you infer about Justin?

Rubin dug frantically through his backpack. It has to be here, he thought. How many times had his mother told him not to take his iPhone to school? He searched his locker again without much hope. He knew he was in trouble.

Make an inference, why is Rubin in trouble?

Jewel loved to bake. She found a recipe called Basic Bread. All you needed was flour, water, and a little yeast. When she made the bread, Jewel forgot to add the yeast, but decided to bake the bread without it. When the timer on the oven went off, Jewel discovered the bread was as flat as a pancake.

What can you infer about what yeast does for bread?