1. Hunting for Clues to Solve a Puzzle
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. Are they having the same conversation? How do you know?
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?

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.

15. Let’s Solve a Mystery
On your computers go to the following web site:
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.