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Making Inferences in Reading Comprehension

The document provides guidance on making inferences while reading, emphasizing the combination of textual details and prior knowledge. It includes a practice section with an example about the brown tree snake in Guam, illustrating how to draw inferences from the text. Additionally, it encourages readers to share their inferences with a partner to reinforce understanding.

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Making Inferences in Reading Comprehension

The document provides guidance on making inferences while reading, emphasizing the combination of textual details and prior knowledge. It includes a practice section with an example about the brown tree snake in Guam, illustrating how to draw inferences from the text. Additionally, it encourages readers to share their inferences with a partner to reinforce understanding.

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Make Inferences Reteach

Review the Rules


When you make inferences, you combine what you know with what you read in
the text. Making inferences helps readers understand what the author wants
them to know.

• Look for details in the text.


• Think about what you already know about the details.
• Put the ideas together. What do they tell you about the text?

Practice
Read “Controlling the Brown Tree Snake” and the sample inference. Then make
another inference to complete the chart.

What I Read
Controlling the Brown Tree Snake

A long time ago, the brown tree snake was


“But now, it is a pest.”
introduced to Guam from Australia. The brown tree
snake was helpful. It controlled small animals like rats
and mice. But now, it is a pest. It has killed off animal What I Know
groups that were native to Guam.
Guam now has a plan to clear out the brown tree “Too many of one kind
snake. Dead mice filled with drugs will be dropped
into the jungles. The snakes will eat the mice and die. of animal upsets the
Researchers think that this is the best way to control ecosystem. I infer there
the brown tree snake population. It also will keep the are too many brown
environment safe.
snakes in Guam."

What I Read What I Know Inference


We can control
pests and keep the
environment safe.

Apply
Tell a partner about an inference you made as you read one of your Small
Group Reading books.

© National Geographic Learning, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc.


For use with TE page T247f RT4.2 Unit 4 | Justice

RT4p1-13_96717_RT_F_002 2 4/10/12 5:28 PM

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