Making Inferences

Match the following terms to their definitions

• Information based on past experience or understanding

• Text Evidence

• Informed idea or conclusion

• Inference

• Details/clues from printed text

• Prior Knowledge

What can you infer about what yeast does for bread?

• Yeast makes bread taste better.

• Yeast makes bread fluff up and rise.

• Yeast gives bread a flaky crust.

• Yeast gives bread its color.

It was 8:30 on Sunday night. Emily stared at the large, empty poster board on her bed. Then she looked at the stack of un-read books about Abraham Lincoln on her desk. Emily began to cry. Why do you think Emily was crying?

• She wanted a different color poster

• It was late and she had a lot of schoolwork to complete before she could end her night

• She did not want to go to sleep

• She wanted a book about George Washington instead

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

A VALID INFERENCE is...

• wild guess

• never supported

• supported with evidence

• is hard to find

You can see that there´s a person running and hugging a purse. Then, you walk around the block and see a girl crying and asking for help. You can guess that...

• The guy was running because he stole the purse.

• The girl is asking for help because she lost her child.

• The guy is running because he is taking the purse to his mom.

Braedon sat in the empty classroom and stared at the floor. It was 4:30pm and school had been over for half an hour, but he still had to sit there. He could over hear his teacher talking to the principal in the hallway about what had happened during class. He put his head in his hands and sighed.
What may the reader best infer from the passage?

• The principal and the teacher are making fun of Braedon.

• Braedon is in detention because he had acted out in class.

• The teacher is getting paid extra to oversee detention.

• Braedon is proud of his poor behavior.

What is one inference you can make from looking at this picture? How do you know?

(Be sure to use the word "because" in your response."

An INFERENCE is...

• logical conclusion

• guess based on evidence

• Both

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.