Questioning and Inferring a Text PDF
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This document provides an explanation about questioning and inferring techniques in reading which encourage deeper understanding beyond literal responses. It uses an example showing how to identify unstated feelings and experiences through text analysis.
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Questioning and inferring a text What is itQuestioning and inferring a text? Questioning and Making Inferences are reading strategies that are taught to students to help them engage with the text. Both inferring and questioning techniques push students to think beyond the literal, text-based...
Questioning and inferring a text What is itQuestioning and inferring a text? Questioning and Making Inferences are reading strategies that are taught to students to help them engage with the text. Both inferring and questioning techniques push students to think beyond the literal, text-based answers they might be used to giving and force students to think in deeper ways about the text. Example Through this text, you know that this person is unhappy, but indirectly, through his talk about the bad situations that happened to him. Summary Through the example above, we can infer that a person feels unhappy due to a lot of bad situations that happened to him. Basically, we go behind the text and find out a person feeling, although it wasn't mentioned throughout the text. We call this process ,inferring.
