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Skill Explainer

1. An Overview of Inferencing

Reasoning and Inferencing Skill Explainer

Why Do We Teach Inferencing?

An overview of making inferences in a comic strip: what we are told, what we see, what we know results in what we infer.
Sources of information for inferencing include what I can read from the text, what I can see in the visuals, and what I know about the topic.

Emphasize “text” over visuals.

Reading Universe is made possible by generous support from Jim & Donna Barksdale; the Hastings/Quillin Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (opens in new window); the AFT (opens in new window); the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (opens in new window); and three anonymous donors.