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
Look at the picture and answer the following questions…
1. How many people do you see?
2. What gender are these people?
3. What are they doing?
4. What is the man grabbing?
5. What other items do you see?
6. What is the weather in this picture?
7. Where are the people standing?

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

15. Now… Let’s Solve a Mystery
I will be reading you a short story. While I do this…
Look closely at the following image
Write down details that you see
Do the details you found match up with the story? If not, hypothesize what really happened.
Elaborate on your reasons.