Starter: What can you tell me about this shoe?

What might the owner have spent time doing?

How old might it be?

Who might it have

belonged to?

Where might it have been

found?

Learning Objective

To be able to make inferences from a text, selecting appropriate supporting

evidence

proof or

reasons

guesses or assumption

s

suitable

Learning Outcomes

Before... Today... Next...

Understanding the rules of dystopian

fiction.

Chapter 1.

1. Know what ‘inference’ means

2. Understand how to make inferences

3. To be able to use appropriate evidence to support your own inferences

Exploring how the author makes the reader feel.

Chapter 2.

Success Criteria

To gain a level 5,

across a range of reading:

I can explain inferred meanings using more than one piece of evidence from the text – I can read between the lines.

I can infer meaning, clearly using a range of evidence from the text.

To gain a level 4,

across a range of reading:

I can infer /guess meanings using evidence from different parts of a text, for example, saying how a character feels.

Often I can infer meaning and I try to use evidence from the text.

To gain a level 3,

in most reading:

I can infer (work out) the basic meaning of a text and show the part of the text that gave me the clues.

I can explain what I mean but often repeat the quote.

Inference

When you infer, you use clues to come to your own conclusions.

Good Readers are ‘detectives’ who are always looking out for clues to

help them better understand stories and pictures.

How do you make an inference?

Story clues (what you have read or seen)

What you already

KNOW (prior knowledge

and personal experience)

Your INFERENCE (conclusion, prediction, judgment)

Character

Events

Setting

Plot

What did you tell me about this shoe? Why?

What might the owner have spent time doing?

How old might it be?

Who might it have

belonged to?

Where might it have been

found?

Spot the inference...

If a sign outside a house says “FOR SALE”, you can infer that:

a) The house is no good to live in.b) The house comes with furniture inside.c) The house is brand new.d) The owners of the house want to move somewhere else.

If a cat is standing by its food bowl, you can infer that:

a) The cat loves you.b) The cat is sick.c) The cat is hungry.d) The cat needs to use the bathroom.

D

C

Learning Objective: To be able to make inferences from a text, selecting appropriate supporting

evidence

1. Know what ‘inference’

means.

3. To be able to use appropriate

evidence to support your inferences

2. To understand how to make inferences

Steps to Success

Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been

spared for another year. But at least two families will pull their shutters, lock their doors, and try to figure out how they will

survive the painful weeks to come.

Story clue What we already know We might infer...

“At least two families...try to figure out how they will survive the painful weeks to come”.

Other parents at the reaping are relieved that their children have survived.

“Pull their shutters, lock their doors”

People often hide away when they are upset, as they don’t want to talk about it.

We walk toward the Seam in silence. I don’t like that Gale took a dig at Madge, but he’s right, of course. The reaping system is unfair, with the poor getting the worst of it.

On other days, deep in the woods, I’ve listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers of the Seam and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. “It’s to the Capitol’s advantage to have us divided among ourselves,” he might say if there were no ears to hear but mine.

I let him yell though. Better he does it in the woods than in the district.

I know that people walk in silence when...

Therefore I can infer that...

I know that people rant when...

Therefore I can infer that...

I know that people worry about people overhearing them if...

Therefore I can infer that...

Challenge:

Come up with questions you could ask to help a primary school pupil make inferences from this picture.

Extension

Learning Objective: To be able to make inferences from a text, selecting appropriate supporting

evidence

1. Know what ‘inference’

means.

3. To be able to use appropriate

evidence to support your inferences

2. To understand how to make inferences

Steps to Success

A tub of warm water waits for me. I scrub off the dirt and sweat from the woods and even wash my hair. To my surprise, my mother has laid out one of her own lovely dresses for me. A soft blue thing with matching shoes.

“Are you sure?” I ask. I’m trying to get past rejecting offers of help from her. For a while, I was so angry, I wouldn’t allow her to do anything for me. And this is something special. Her clothes from her past are very precious to her.

The writer suggests.................................................................when she says “..............................................................................................................................................................................”This makes the reader think ................................................. .......................................................................................................

The word .................................... makes me think of ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Self-assessment

Making Inferences Literacy

In my writing, I have:

Used capital letters to start sentences and for proper nouns (names, places).

Used full stops to end sentences.

Used connectives to link my ideas and sentences together.

Used the correct tense (past, present, future).

Checked the spelling of key words.

In my writing, I have:

Made an inference:

Explained my inference:

Used evidence from the text to help me to explain:

Picked one key word and explained why it is important:

I get it!I’m getting

there!I need more

help!

Create your own piece of writing that might lead someone to make these inferences:

- Katniss loves her sister, Prim.- Katniss doesn’t know what will happen to her

when she joins the Hunger Games- Katniss’ mother is worried about her daughter.

Remember; you must make the reader think these things, rather than just telling them.

Extension

Learning Objective: To be able to make inferences from a text, selecting appropriate supporting

evidence

1. Know what ‘inference’

means.

3. To be able to use appropriate

evidence to support your inferences

2. To understand how to make inferences

Steps to Success

Review

What are the key learning points from

today’s lesson?

What questions do you have about today’s

learning?