Building skills of inference and deduction

RAF3 – deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from

texts.

Your learning focus for today is to deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts. How can you do this?

You will need to read the text and then develop a response.

What will they say next?

Think the

5w’s

What will they say next?

Before you write think:

• What information do you

have?

• Who might be speaking?

• What might be going on?

• Where is the

conversation happening?

• Why is the conversation

taking place?

Read the following sentences- what will the response be? Choose any sentence

and write a response.

1) ‘Why do you want to run in the race when you know you will be beaten?’

2) ‘Shouldn’t you put it back before it is missed?’

3) ‘I can’t go on with it. We need to turn back.’

4) ‘One of you needs to own up. If you speak up now the punishment will be far less.’

5) ‘You know that the moment you step through the door you will change the course of history. Are you ready for the consequences of that?”