Subica Hussain
Master of Arts in Teaching
Common Core Reading Standard involving the application of comprehension strategy "Inferring using clues."
RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Inferring is a comprehension strategy that enables the reader to understand the text based on the knowledge given. Inferring occurs when there is some information provided about a particular idea in the text, and the reader uses the information to make assumptions about that particular idea or information. For example, “you are riding a bicycle and suddenly gain a burst of speed, without paddling faster,” the reader might infer that the bicycle bumped by a car, or maybe the bicycle began to go down a hill. Essentially, making an educated guess on what might have happened. The reader uses clues given in the text to figure out what is going on. There is a difference between inferring and predicting. Predicting is when the reader looks at the current event to make a guess on what will happen next. On the other hand, inferring is when the reader uses the clue to make a guess on what has happened.
Work Cited:
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