INFERRING AND PREDICTING

Metacognitive Reading Strategy

• Reading between the lines to:• …figure out extra information the author wants a

reader to know• …gain additional meaning about what’s going on in

a story• …take what you know and add in further

information

INFERRING

Maybe… I think that…

Perhaps…

It could be…

INFERRING PRACTICE: What can you infer based on the information available to you?

“’You say you didn’t know it was due today?’ my teacher asked me with tears in her eyes…”

“ I don’t believe it”

Chapter 3: Paragraph 1• I infer that the author is actually saying that people are

really excited about this huge pearl. I also infer that news is traveling quickly about Kino finding the Pearl of the World.

• Why am I inferring this?

Questions?

INFERRING: SOME PRACTICE

• Predicting is taking what you know (or think you know) and making an educated guess about what will happen later in the text.

• Unlike inferences, we can tell if almost always find out if our predictions are correct or not…

PREDICTING

PREDICTING

INFERRING AND PREDICTING

INFERENCE PREDICTIONI infer that the author is actually saying that people are really excited about this huge pearl. I also infer that news is traveling quickly about Kino finding the Pearl of the World.

Because I infer that everyone is finding out about this pearl and are getting excited about it, I predict that all the towns people are going to come to see Kino because they will want to see the pearl.

QUESTIONS?

• Reading between the lines and putting together what is said to figure out what is unsaid.

INFERRING

Wait a second…

I know this…

And this…

And that…

So let me put this all together…

AH HA! I know what she’s really saying here! I’m a genius…

JOURNAL ENTRY (Optional)• Topic sentence• Your definition of inferring and predicting• An example of when you have used inferring and

predicting• Why this strategy is important.

INFERRING & PREDICTING