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1. Inferencing
Hunting for Clues to Solve a Puzzle

2. What is Inferencing?
•Finding clues
•Putting them together
•Solving the problem
•Like a jigsaw puzzle

3. Here are some Synonyms
•deduce
•figure out
•guess
•interpretation
•read between the lines
•understand
•reason
•drawing conclusions

4. Daily Inferencing
•Jigsaw puzzles
•Answering Riddles
•Problem Solving
(backtracking)
•Answering questions
•Reading
•Math word problems
•Conversing with
people

5. Finding Clues
What Should We Look For?
•PLACES
• TIME
• COLORS
•TEXTURES
•BODY LANGUAGE
•ACTIONS
•SITUATIONS OR
CONTEXT

6. Visual Clues
•What clues do you
see?
•What do we know
about the product?
•What do we know
about the company?
•What do we know
about the person who
drank the drink?

7. Situational Clues
•What do we know
about this picture?
•What clues do you
see?
•What can we infer
from the clues?

8. Location Clues
•What do we know
about the event in the
photo?
•What is the mood of
the event?
•What other activities
may be occurring at
the same time or later?

9. Word Clues
•It’s clear
•It’s round
•It’s made of glass,
metal and plastic
•It has a handle
•It makes things look
bigger
•What is it?

10. Body Language Clues
Are they having the same conversation?
How do you know?

11. Let’s Practice
•What clues do you
notice?
•Who are the people in
the commercial and
what do they represent?
•What emotions are you
seeing from the people in
the commercial?
•What can we infer from
this commercial?

12. Putting the Clues Together
•When we infer meaning
we put together clues like
a jigsaw puzzle.
For example: Look at our
clues!
The Captain traveled down
the rough muddy road in
his Jeep.
•What clues are presented ?
•What can we infer about
The Captain?
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13. You be the Detective
•You will be receiving
5 sets of clues in just
a few minutes. Follow
the clues to see if you
can infer the answers.
You will find the clues
on your computers in
the jigsaw puzzle
program.

14. Let’s Practice Some More!
•What word clues can
you find to help you
solve this puzzle?
•Listen to the word
clues to see if you can
guess who the mystery
person is.
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15. Let’s Solve a Mystery
•On your computers go
to the following web
site:
http://kids.mysterynet.com/solveit/
•Read the story and
let’s discuss the clues
you found before you
solve the mystery

16. Let’s Recap...
•Inferencing means:
•Finding clues
•Putting them together
•Solving the problem
•It is just like a jigsaw
puzzle.

17. Instructions for our Project
•Choose a picture from our database that shows the end
of a possible story.
•Create a short story that tells what led up to this
ending.
•Present your story to the class.