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.
