3. How do you make inferences?
• Take what you SEE
– (textual/visual evidence)
• Add it to what you ALREADY KNOW
– (prior knowledge)
• Making an INFERENCE includes…
– Drawing a CONCLUSION/GENERALIZATION
– Also—making a PREDICTION
7. Imagine this bumper sticker on the back of the SAME car--
What ELSE can you INFER about the car’s owner?
8. Imagine THIS bumper sticker, too—on the back of the SAME car…
What ELSE can you INFER about the car’s owner?
9. Here’s a picture of the CAR’S OWNER:
•What can you INFER about the owner from this picture?
•WHERE do you think his car is PARKED?
10. Making Inferences with TEXT
While reading the following chapter
excerpt, use the INFERENCE PROCESS to
make inferences about what you read…
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Look at this book’s cover—and make some inferences:
-What type of story do you think it is? (genre)
-What might it be about? (plot)
12. Virus on Orbis 1
{The Softwire Series}
Chapter 1 Excerpt:
http://www.kobobooks.com/content/Chapter-1/sc-gL1Mb7rAoEei-1kWLe_0jg/pag
Audio of Chapter 1: Scroll down to chapter links
http://comics.ign.com/articles/746/746949p1.html
Direct link to Chapter 1 audio:
http://comicsmovies.ign.com/comics/audio/softwire_chapter_1.mp3
Teacher Note: See Lesson Instructions for where to stop audio/online chapter
13. Making Inferences about the TEXT:
• How did your predictions (from the book cover)
compare to what the book is about so far?
• What do you think is going to happen next?
14. Making Inferences – TAKS Practice
ON YOUR OWN:
Use the Chapter 1 excerpt from
Virus on Orbis 1
to help you answer questions 1-4.
15.
16. 1 The reader can tell that Switzer
thinks JT is—
A dangerous
B dishonest
C stubborn
D unsafe
17. 2 Which sentence from the selection best shows how JT feels
about his sister Ketheria?
F My sister, who was five years younger than me, was fiercely
independent.
G She was almost eight years old and had never spoken a
single word.
H She smiled and squeezed my hand again.
I I looked out for her because she was the only family I had
and we were the only siblings on the Renaissance.
18. 3 Based on information provided in the selection,
the reader can conclude that the Rings of Orbis —
A are a very welcoming and friendly place
B caused the death of all the adults on the ship
C could be a potentially difficult place to live
D are planet rings inhabited by other humans
19. 4 In the future, Switzer and JT will probably—
F become friends once the ship lands
G have other conflicts with each other
H work together to deal with potential problems
on Orbis
I learn how to deal with their dislike of each other
20. Additional Cool Links!
Book Trailer for Virus on Orbis 1:
http://www.thesoftwire.com/readergetyourprize/do
Rings of Orbis Online Game:
http://www.ringsoforbis.com/docs/preview/preview
21. Lesson Notes
• This lesson was developed to be used by various
content-area teachers during “blitz” sessions to
prepare students for the TAKS reading test, 7-8
grades (April 2011)
• Teachers who taught the lesson did not necessarily
have any background in reading instruction
• The lesson was developed by the campus library
media specialist, Teresa Diaz
• The book excerpts correlated with the upcoming
author visit for May, 2011
22. Example of
Cross-Curricular
Support Lesson for
Campus-Wide Test Preparation
Created by Teresa Diaz, Library Media Specialist
Eisenhower MS – North East ISD
San Antonio, TX
tdiaz4@neisd.net
Editor's Notes
Explain to students that this activity involves making inferences, which they do regularly, maybe without even knowing it Explain that drawing conclusions about something is also making an inference: Making inferences is like a basic math problem: What you see (textual /visual evidence) + what you already know (prior knowledge) = your inference/conclusion—even a prediction! Another way of making an inference: “ It Says…I Say…And So” Process
Explain to students that this activity involves making inferences, which they do regularly, maybe without even knowing it Explain that drawing conclusions about something is also making an inference: Making inferences is like a basic math problem: What you see (textual /visual evidence) + what you already know (prior knowledge) = your inference/conclusion…even a prediction! Another way of making an inference: “ It Says…I Say…And So” Process
Imagine this bumper sticker on the back of a car— What can you infer about the car’s owner?
Here’s a picture of the car’s owner: What can you infer from this picture about the owner? Where do you think his car is parked?
Have students read the chapter excerpt on the screen while listening to the Chapter 1 audio file. After t
Have students read the chapter excerpt on the screen while listening to the Chapter 1 audio file. After t
