NELA S12 Literacy Workshop, Rocky Mount, NC

1. LEARNING TO MAKE INFERENCES
Carl Young
NC State University
NELA Literacy Workshop
Thursday, February 8, 2011

2. Inference? What does it mean
to make an inference?
The ability to connect what is in the
text with what is in the mind to
create an educated guess.
Combining prior knowledge and
text analysis / context clues to
make an educated guess.

3. Let’s see how good you are
at making inferences…
He put down $10.00 at the window.
The woman behind the window
gave $4.00. The person next to him
gave him $3.00, but he gave it back
to her. So, when they went inside,
she bought him a large bag of
popcorn.

4. How did we do?

5. So, what do skilled readers do
when making inferences…

6. Comments teachers can make to
help students learn how to make
certain types of inferences…

7. Additional Texts to Analyze
for Making Inferences

8. Additional Texts to Analyze
for Making Inferences

9. Additional Texts to Analyze
for Making Inferences
A short story
told in a series
of 45 checks.

10. Additional Texts to Analyze
for Making Inferences