Inferring from context

Topic #4 Inferring from context.

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• Inference is the ability to understand the meaning of a passage of text without all the information being spelled out.
• The author gives information from context clues within a passage.
• When the author infers is providing information about plot, characters, setting, time period and other elements. This is observed in the words the author choses.
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Topic #4 Inferring from context.

• How to improve our inference ability?
• Here you will find some techniques.
• 1. Cloze technique.
• This technique takes the reader to complete any pattern that is not complete.
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Topic #4 Inferring from context.

• 2. General Sense
• This type of activity helps students infer the meaning of words or passage by using context clues. It does no matter if the words are not known.
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Topic #4 Inferring from context.

• 3. Working with examples
• Reading examples that have the same meaning of a word that is new or unfamiliar.
• Here, readers use their own background knowledge to learn what they do not know.
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Topic #4 Inferring from context.

• 4. Opposites and Contrasts
• Opposites and contrasts help readers take information they already know to infer meaning to other words. If you have a word and its meaning is not implied by context or a general sense, it can be understood by using a word that is opposite.
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