Making Inferences

and

Drawing Conclusions

Making Inferences

• Writers won’t tell you everything. • Sometimes you need to figure things out

on your own.• You need to learn how to use everything

you read and everything you already know.

• Taking something you read and putting it with something you already know to make an inference.

Making Inferences

What I learned+ What I already know= Inference

For example:• The woman reached into

her pocket for the keys. She clicked the button, opened the door and put her parcels in the back seat. What was the woman doing?

• You can infer that the woman was shopping.

Drawing Conclusions

“Putting two and two together”

Drawing conclusions

• You take bits of information and come up with something else from what you know.

For Example:• Imagine you see a man

nearly 6’6’’ tall in an airport. All you know is that he is tall. But suppose you saw this man with 10 -15 other tall men, all of them carrying gym bags and wearing basketball shoes. What conclusion could you draw?

He’s probably part of a basketball team!

Facts

• Fact #1 man 6’6’’ tall

• Fact #2 10 – 15 other tall men

• Fact #3 gym bags and basketball shoes

Conclusion

Basketball team!!

Riddle 1

I am blood, though never red,

And those I’m found it never bled.

I move beneath their rugged skin

And carry life to leaf and limb.

Riddle 2

Unique among beast, I hold humans in thrall

Noblest of creatures and greatest of all

In form I am equine with flowing white mane,

Confusing to those who have pondered in vain

On seeing my beard and my spiraling spear

Rising in triumph twixt left and right ear-

Now think, gentle reader, and tell me my name.

Riddle 3

I am a frown without a face,

A lazy lone parenthesis;

I am an arc above a shoal,

And bowed abode of toll and troll.

Riddle #4

I am a roof, though some complain

I give no shelter from the rain.

I am a bowl placed upside down

And cover mountaintop and town.

I am a window, giving light,

Yet home to darkness and to night.