inferences: things that make you go hmmmmm
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Things That Make You Go
HMMMMM?!
Ashley Brooks
MAEd- READ ECU Graduate Student
Dr. Elizabeth Swaggerty-ECU
Infer: Strategic Action
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Inferring-Reading-Strategy-
Poster-20883
Text Clues
Clues directly from
text
http://www.mycutegraphics.com/graphics/detective/de
tective-and-dog-investigating-clues.html
Schema/Prior Knowledge
“Reading is a process of actively constructing
of meaning and connecting prior knowledge
with new information” (Pearson, Dole, Roeler, and Duffy, 2007).
There are three kinds of prior knowledge or schema:
1. Specific knowledge about topic of the text
2. General world knowledge about social relationships and casual
structures
3. Knowledge about the text’s organization (genre)
We’ve all heard that….
http://earlychildhood-yearsix.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html
Results of Text
+Schema=Inference
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85.7
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Child 1 Child 2 Child 3 Child 4 Child 5
Pre-intervention
Treatment 1
But Did You Know???
https://languageartstheoryandpractice.wikispaces.com/Reading+at+the+secondary+scho
ol+level
Schema Getting in the Way
http://www.cartoonmotivators.com/Roadblock.html
Order Can Impact
Comprehension
http://www.teachthought.com/featured/read-dont-understand/
Graphic Organizer Adjustment :
Text + Inference = Schema
85.7
57.1
66.7
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57.1
87.5 92.9
81.3 7575
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Child 1 Child 2 Child 3 Child 4 Child 5
Pre-intervention
Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Type of Inference Matters
Reorder Depending
on Type of Inference Leads to
Comprehension
HMMM?????
http://meandmythrees.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-do-you-infer.html
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Willow Brooks
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You will never be forgotten
2004-2014
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Ashley Brooks
Elizabeth Swaggerty