Inferring

We are learning how to infer meaning when we read. Sometimes when people write stories the don't tell us everything we need to know. Sometimes we need to find clues, or we might need to use our prior knowledge, to help us understand the full story.

For example someone might say that they have a cat called Garfeild and that they want to buy some special socks for Garfeild.I know that cats have 4 legs so I can also tell that we need to buy 4 socks This is called inferrd 

We can successfully infer by using the following strategies:
 Give examples of literal information gained from the text
 Give examples of inferential information gained from the text
 Recognise and discuss the links between 2 or more ideas that have led to an inference
being made
 Use our prior knowledge to help us infer
 Describe what an inference is
 Ask and answer questions about the information we have inferred
 Ask and answer inferential questions
 Explain what we inferred and how we came to make these inferences
 Explain the difference between something stated explicitly (right there on the page)
and something stated implicitly (not stated but a strong hunch)
 Identify and discuss the clues that helped us infer, e.g: a single word, a group of
words, the use of punctuation, the use of repetition, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor,
the use of bold or italic font.