Looking for clues...

Learning Outcomes

• To learn the reading skills of inference & deduction.
• To use them to explain Terry's character.

Inference

• Read the story about Paul and Alice.

Every day after work Paul took his muddy boots off on the steps of the front porch. Alice would have
a fit if the boots made it so far as the welcome mat. He then took off his dusty overalls and threw them
into a plastic garbage bag; Alice left a new garbage bag tied to the porch railing for him every
morning. On his way in the house, he dropped the garbage bag off at the washing machine and went
straight up the stairs to the shower as he was instructed. He would eat dinner with her after he was
“presentable,” as Alice had often said.

Questions

• What type of job does Paul work?
• How do you know

Questions

• What type of job does Paul work?
• How do you know

Questions

• Describe Alice.
• Why do you describe her like that?

Questions

• What relationship do Paul and Alice have?
• Why do you think this?

Inference

• This is the clues the writer leaves in the story.
• This lets us know things without them saying it.
• The writer infers...

Deduction

• These are the ideas we have from reading the clues
• The reader deduces...

With a partner

• One reads the blue story.
• One reads the purple story.

Ask...

• The partner who read blue asks the purple questions to their partner.
• Purple readers must answer and give their reasons.

Ask...

• The partner who read purple asks the blue questions to their partner.
• Blue readers must answer and give their reasons.

As we read...

• Think about the question - 'How do we know Terry's wealth has not come honestly?'

As we read...

• Look for clues and make notes in your exercise book.
• I will be asking questions at the end of reading!