Grades 4-7

1. Inferences
Hmmmm??

2. What is an inference anyway?

3. To infer is to take a critical look at what you are
reading and make an assumption based on your
own experiences.

4. When do we use inferencing?

5. While we are reading,
we are picturing the
story and asking
ourselves questions
about the story.

6. We find clues in the text and can
make judgments, to answer these
questions, based on what we know
from our experiences.

7. Take a look at this cartoon:

9. First let’s
consider Lucy.
What do we
see?
By reading the
picture, we can
see how the
author drew her.

10. What do
we know?
We know that
when people
look like
that, they are
usually angry.

11. We can infer that Lucy is
Angry.

12. What do we
read?
We read that
Lucy sighs and
then says “Youth
never listens.”

13. What do we know?
We know that
Lucy is a “youth”.
We also know that
when someone
says that someone
else “never
listens,” It’s an
insult.

14. Because Lucy wouldn’t want to
insult herself, we can infer that
Lucy thinks she is more
Mature
than Linus and Snoopy.

15. What can you infer from this picture?

16. Right…
We can infer that these girls are
friends because they are smiling
and walking together.

17. Yes…
We can also infer that they are
shopping because they are in a
mall and are carrying bags.

18. What can we infer from this passage?
She stumbled down the road, not sure what
made her car veer like that. The water was
running down her face and dripping off her hair.
She suddenly saw the lights of another car. She
was sure they would be able to help her.

19. Can you infer what just happened
to the woman?
Can you infer the setting?

20. Good! Now you know!
Good readers visualize, question, and
make judgments about what they read.
Don’t fly blind, be a good
reader!