The document discusses making inferences by using details and facts to make reasoned guesses about unknown information. It provides an example where a man is under a sink with tools and a puddle, allowing the inference that the sink is leaking and he is fixing it. The document advises to notice unusual details, consider the author's purpose, and add up known facts to make inferences. An example sentence states that half of US classrooms now have internet access, from which it can be inferred that students have access to current news and information sources are no longer limited to books.

1. MAKING INFERENCES
Karen Silvestri

2. What is happening here?

3. Making an Inference
 Use any information you can get from the
photo or the text and make guesses based on
that information.
 This is called REASONING.
 INFERENCE is a reasoned guess about what
you don’t know made on the basis of what you
do know.

4. What is happening here?

5. Make an informed guess!
 The man is under a sink.
 There are tools next to him.
 There is a puddle of water on the floor.
We can INFER from the details in
the picture that the sink is leaking
and the man is fixing the sink.

6. Steps to Making Inferences
 Figure out the Main Idea, Key Details, and
Organizational Pattern
 Notice Details – especially those that are unusual
or stand out.
 Look up unfamiliar words.
 Add up the FACTS.
 Consider the author’s purpose

7. Consider this sentence.
Half of the public education
classrooms in the United Sates
are now hooked up to the
Internet.
Can we INFER the following?
Children are more computer literate than their
parents were when they were in school.

8. Half of the public education
classrooms in the United Sates
are now hooked up to the
Internet.
 Can we INFER the following?
Students now have access to current world news
and happenings.

9. Half of the public education
classrooms in the United Sates
are now hooked up to the
Internet.
Can we INFER the following?
Books are no longer considered the sole source of
information on a subject.

10. Half of the public education
classrooms in the United Sates
are now hooked up to the
Internet.
 Can we INFER the following?
Teachers have become better teachers now that
they have Internet access.