Good readers make inferences when they read. They use their background knowledge and the text clues to figure things out that the author is SHOWING us not TELLING us.

TELLING: The policeman was angry.

SHOWING: The policemen scrunched up his fists and stomped towards me.

A great way to write show, don’t tell sentences is to describe characters so the reader understands their emotions:

Click the words below to go to the discussion boards and post an example of a SHOW sentence for these emotions. 

Angry

Sad

Happy

Nervous

Tired

 

Bonus tasks!

1) Add a comment with a SHOW sentence about a pirate, and Bosco can guess the emotion!

2) Find the hidden link in this post to play an inference game!

 

5 thoughts on “Making Inferences”

  1. Hey Miss B,

    cool photos of faces i wrote lots of things about them happy, sad, angry, nervous, and tired

    cya (Michael!!!)

  2. Hey Miss B

    This post has a poster about making inferences!

    From Kawana

  3. Hey Miss B,

    I think making inferences is really important, especially when there are no pictures.

    Hannah

  4. Hey Miss B,

    I kinda had fun doing this we should do this more often.

    From Bailey.

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