What does it mean to “infer?” What do you think it means to “infer?”
INFER: To make meaning by adding what you know (schema) to what you read (text).
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INFER:To make meaning by adding what you know (schema)
to what you read (text).
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An inference is like a BUILDING:
Pieces from the TEXT are bricks.Pieces from your SCHEMA
(background knowledge) are the mortar.
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Bricks (text info) without mortar (your schema) are
too weak to make an solid inference.
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Inferences without both
text & schema
fall flat.
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A good inference is always
supported by text info (bricks) plus
schema (mortar).
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When you read:
“Dad told me that I’d be fine as long as I never depended on anybody but myself…He said the
government was after us ever since I could remember… The shelter we lived in was set
miles into a forest…a place no person besides us had any cause to be.”
(Alabama Moon, Watt Key)
What does the text tell you?(just the ‘bricks’--only the text)
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We have text info (the bricks) let’s add schema (our mortar).
What do we think we know about…
-people who think independence is important?
-people who think the government is after them?
-people who live out in the woods?
-a place where nobody else has a reason to be?
-fathers and sons?
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Now that we have our text and schema, lets put these bricks and mortar together to make
some inferences:
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Inferences with good text (brick)& schema (mortar) support
stand on their own.