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What is inferencing?

A reader’s ability to use information from a text and draw on their background knowledge to understand things that are implied rather than explicitly stated.

 
Teachers can encourage children to make their own inferences with the support of an adult before they engage in planned tasks with their peers. After this support and scaffold has been provided, children should then be encouraged to engage in inference making, independent of an adult.

Matthew Courtney

Greenshaw Research School