Bahasa Inggris 1

Disusun oleh:Pikir Wisnu Wijayanto, M.Hum

Fihrin Zuhrufillah, M.PdYuningsih, S.S

Prodi D3 Manajemen InformatikaFakultas Ilmu Terapan

Universitas Telkom

• Basic Competency : The students are able to show their ability of understanding the reading skills in English text

• Topic : Reading Strategies

• Sub topic : Inferring Missing Words, Topics, and Main Idea from Text

• Meeting : 13th

Competencies and Indicators

Basic Intermediate Advance able to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and logical and make the affixation of five words from the text correctly

able to show the inferring the main ideas of each paragraph and the passage but not logical and make affixation more than five words from the text correctly but their word class categorization is not correct

able to make the inferring the main ideas of each paragraph and the passage and logical and make affixation more than five words from the text and categorize their word class correctly

Authors vs Readers

Authors Imply, Readers Infer

Authors make implications that readers have to infer

What do I mean by these statements?

Good Readers are Detectives who are always looking out for clues to help them better understand stories and pictures.

Authors vs ReadersAuthors don’t always tell every detail or give every bit of information in nonfiction or in fiction stories

Readers make inferences to supply information that authors leave out.

When you make an inference, you add what you already know to what an author has told you.

Examples

What the author said + what I know = my inference

The weather

had been

scorching for weeks.

Summer is the hottest time of

the year.

It is summer

.

Examples

What the author said + what I know = my inference

Al took out a

pitcher of cold lemona

de.

You keep

things cold in

a refriger

ator.

Al took the

lemonade out of the

refrigerator.

Examples

What the author said + what I know = my inference

He got a glass out of

the cupboar

d.

People get out glasses when they

want to drink

something.

Al wanted to drink a glass

of lemona

de.

Inference

Take what you know and make a guess!

Draw personal meaning from text (words) or pictures.

You use clues to come to your own conclusion.

Make an Inference!

What does this image tell me?

Question…

What did I already know that helped me make that inference?

Did I use picture or written clues?

Help Me Make an Inference!

More Question…

Did you use words, graphs, or picture clues to help you make a guess about what that cartoon meant?

Let’s practi ce…

Try Again!

Can he draw more than tigers?

Look up words you don’t know!

How Do Good Readers Make Inferences?

Word/text clues

Picture clues

Define unknown words

Look for emotion (feelings)

Use what they already know

Look for explanations for events

ASK themselves questions!

Let’s practi ce…

Miss White has recess duty. Jacob finds a frog, picks it up, and runs over to show it to Miss White. Miss White screams, jumps, and runs as fast as she can into the school.

1. What can you infer from this passage?2. What are the “clues” in this passage?

Make Another Inference

References

Louis, St Rubena and Pereira, Silvia (2010). Focus on reading. Rubena St. Louis: Venezuela

Mikulecky, Beatrice S (1996). More Reading Power. Longman

William, E (1984). Reading in the language classroom. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Gunning, Thomas (2010). A step by step program for developing higher level skills in struggling readers. International Reading Association

Harmer, Jeremy (2004). Just. Marshall Cavendish Ltd

References – cont…

http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?sp=true&code=B4CW4A

https://www.rcs.k12.va.us/pfes/.../making%20inferences.ppt

www.shsu.edu/txcae/Powerpoints/inferences.ppt

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www.FIPSEheaderPhoto.com

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