Inferences are our superpower

Making inferences is what makes a good reader a great reader.  How do you think about what you are reading while you are reading?  It is such a weird thing to think about.  The more we become aware of how to ‘read between the lines’, the more we will comprehend and connect with.

Reading turns gears in our brains.  It starts to make inferences by:

By making an inference you go beyond the authors words to understand what is not said in the text.

Your turn:

Connect the EVIDENCE sentence with the accompanying BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE sentence and the associated INFERENCE sentence from the chart below to make 3 mini paragraphs in the text boxes below: