Inference Training

Inference!What’s that?

Inference: a subjective process where the reader determines what the author is suggesting, using background knowledge and prior experience.

Leicester LEA, draft reading document

Inference means reading all the clues and making your best guess!http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcinf1.htm

Inference: to reach an opinion from available information or facts.Cambridge Dictionary of American

English

Inference: conclusion reached by reasoning from data or premises; speculation.

http://www.english-test.net/toefl/vocabulary/meanings/015/toefl-

words.php#inference

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon.The little dog laughed to see such funAnd the dish ran away with the spoon!

Early Inference

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Cross-curricular - History

Some factors contributing to poor reading comprehension.

EAL issues

Linkinginformation

together

Poorbackground knowledge

Decoding issues

Difficultiesinferringmeaningfrom text

Recognisingthe keywords

Poorknowledge

of storystructure

Vocabulary

Inference training

Inference Training – 6 Steps

1. Prior knowledge.2a. Word definitions. b. Elaboration.3. Ask a question.4. Missing sentence.5. Get visual.6. Summarise

Step 1Prior Knowledge

Teddi crept along to Grandma’s room. It was all in darkness. She edged the door open and peeped inside the empty room. On the bedside table stood the package, covered with strange stamps.

Teddi held her breath and tiptoed to the table. The package was like a magnet. It seemed to draw her in. Her fingers itched. She just had to know what was inside.

Step 2a. Word definitions

b. Elaboration

strange stamps

package

held her

breath

was like a magn

et

edged

peeped

Step 3Ask a question

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Step 4Missing sentence

Teddi crept along to Grandma’s room. It was all in darkness. She edged the door open and peeped inside the empty room. On the bedside table stood the package, covered with strange stamps.

Teddi held her breath and tiptoed to the table. The package was like a magnet. It seemed to draw her in. Her fingers itched. She just had to know what was inside.

The paper at the edge of the packet was loose.

Step 5Get

visual

Step 6Summarise

Practicalities

Specific intervention- guided reading group

- TA support Guided/sharedreading

Independent work

Guided Reading 2nd Edition

A handbook for teaching guided reading at

Key Stage 2

By Angela Hobsbaum, Nikki Gamble and David Reedy