MAKING

INFERENCES
GROUP 10
ALIFAYUNINGSUKRIDA 231804
WINA ARISTANTIA 2318049
DEFENITION OF MAKING
INFERENCES
• Making inferences is a comprehension strategy
used by proficient readers to “read between the
lines,” make connections, and draw conclusions
about the text’s meaning and purpose.
• Harry’s face turned red and he started to yell,
balling his hands up into shaking fists.
• It’s not to hard to infer what Harry’s feeling
here. From the evidence of his face, voice, and
hands, we infer that he’s really angry about
something, though we don’t yet know what it is.
Good readers make inferences as they
read. That is, in addition to reading the
words, they use their imagination and their
knowledge about the world to fill in facts
and ideas that are not stated in the text.
This is sometimes called "reading between
the lines.“ It is often necessary to read
between the lines because a writer cannot
include all the possible information about
a topic or situation. Writers leave out
information that they think readers will
know already or will be able to guess.
 Separating Fact From Inference

• In many kinds of writing, the author presents facts

about a situation or topic and also makes inferences
from those facts.
• Facts are statements of information that can be
verified. For example : -Chile is considered one of
the most conservative Catholic countries in South
America
Inferences are educated guesses
that are based on facts.
For example: - People in Chile are
not as conservative as generally
thought. -People in Chile want
changes in their society and
economy
Making Inference in Fiction
• Writers of fiction often show their characters in
action and allow them to speak for themselves.
Readers then have the job of deciding what those
actions and words mean and what they reveal about
the characters, the events of the story and the
message the author intends to send. In other words,
readers must draw inferences about what they read.
An inference in fiction is a reasonable conclusion or
judgment about some element of a story based on
information given in the story and the reader's
personal knowledge of how the world works.
How to Draw Inferences
• you are reading along, you notice that the writer seems to
leave out a piece of information, or you have a question about
something in the story like a character's motivation or the
meaning of a piece of dialogue. How do you find the missing
information or answer your question? You draw an inference.
• You look for clues in the text, little pieces of information that
seem to relate to the missing information or your question.
• You think about what you already know from your own
experience in the real world.
• You put these two pieces of the puzzle together in a logical
way to produce a reasonable conclusion that supplies the
missing piece of information or the answer to your question.