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Skill Explainer

1. An Overview of Inferencing

Reasoning and Inferencing Skill Explainer

Marion McBride, M.Ed.

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.

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