Making Inferences for Kids What is an Inference How to Teach Inferencing in Literacy

hey have you been paying attention do you know what's going on here what how do know I've been inferencing do you know what that is okay let me explain making an inference means figuring something out based on what you already know or what you can observe it's like making smart guess using the information that you have and it's important to remember that your inference is not definite answer but just really good guess now there's couple of key steps that we should always follow when we inference the first is to start by observing which means watching and that's going to help you gather your information or your evidence next we look for patterns and that's going to help us connect the dots and maybe lead to possible conclusion then we start to cross things off our list that we think might not be the answer based on the information that we've gathered and last we form conclusion which is kind of like final decision based on the information that we've seen now there's pretty good chance that you inference on day-to-day basis even if you don't know it we use inferencing when we're watching movies we use inferencing when we're reading books or listening to stories and we use inferencing when we're playing games or even interacting with family and friends it's kind of like you're solving everyday Mysteries using your amazing brain and I've got an idea maybe we could do couple of examples together which is going to help you understand inferencing even more already let's have look at this guy right here it's beautiful sunny day and he's not wearing shoes but flip-flops instead guess that rules out hiking he also is wearing bathing suit and carrying towel take moment and make an inference as to where he's off to go ahead and hit pause for second and try and use inferencing to figure out where he's off to and if you said swimming you are correct all right let's have another look at somebody else and we're gonna try and figure out where he is and what he's up to he's wearing backpack and has some luggage on Wheels he's also carrying passport which is what people use when they travel there's all these places behind him and what's that in the corner right there it looks like picture of plane all right go ahead and hit pause and try and figure out where am and what I'm up to okay if you said that I'm at an airport and I'm taking trip nice job you're correct all right this next one's little bit trickier we use inferencing in movies and books all the time to try and figure out what's going to happen next let's use inferencing all right now to try and do the exact same thing the sun was out earlier but now there's dark clouds rolling in the wind is starting to pick up and there are trees that are beginning to sway can hear something like rumbling truck going by but don't see truck any ideas okay go ahead and hit pause one more time and try and figure out what is going to happen next well if you used your skills and inferencing to piece together that there was rain coming this way or maybe even some kind of crazy thunderstorm you are correct so I've got no doubt in my mind that you're an inferencing Pro now you too so the next time you're trying to figure out what's going to happen in the next chapter of your book or maybe even figure out what the villain's going to do in great movie or show that you're watching or maybe just solve an everyday mystery just use inferencing to point you in the right direction speaking of direction if you work in education and are looking for specific video online but just can't seem to find it point me in the right direction using the comments below and everybody else that tuned in today thanks for watching the Mr sad show good luck with inferencing and we'll see you next time laughs