2 LAC SG Making Inferences and Predicting Outcomes
2 LAC SG Making Inferences and Predicting Outcomes
2 LAC SG Making Inferences and Predicting Outcomes
Prepared by:
RAMON MERCADO BELARDO,JR.
Key Understandings
2. There are some words that we use when we infer: I think, I infer, My guess
is, Perhaps, This could mean, I predict, Maybe.
3. Prediction focuses on what will happen next and in order to make sound
predictions, readers need to infer from details in the text. Thus predicting
outcomes needs inferring skills.
a. What is my inference?
This question helps students become aware that they may have just
made an inference by filling in information that wasn’t directly
presented.
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b. What information did I use to make this inference? It’s important for
students to understand the various types of information they use to
make inferences. This may include information presented in the text,
or it may be background knowledge that a student brings to the
learning setting.
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References
Beers, K. (2003). When kids can't read: What teachers can do. Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann.
Raphael, T.E., & Pearson, P.D. (1985). Increasing students’ awareness of sources
of information for answering questions. American Educational Research
Journal, 22, 217–236.
Readence, J.E., Bean, T.W. & Baldwin, R.S.(1992). Content area reading: An
integrated approach.(4th.Ed.).Dubuque, IA: Kendal Hunt.
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Procedure
Activity ( 30 minutes)
Inferring from Videos. Before watching the video, ask the participants to consider
the title of the short film: Miss Pretty Nose by Fandy Wirawan, and determine what
the film will be about.
Ask: 1. From the title of the story, what do you think will the story be about?
Let them read questions in Worksheet 1 and instruct the participants to try answering
questions 2 through 6 as they watch the video.
Ask: 2. What do you think does the woman feel as she rubs her nose at the beginning
of the short film?
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3. How would you characterize the woman upon seeing what she did before
going on a date?
4. Why do you think she had to do such a thing?
5. How do you think does the man feel upon looking at the picture of the
woman on his phone?
6. How does the man feel upon seeing the woman face-to-face?
Then ask the participants to answer question 7, before playing the video again.
Ask: 7. How do think will the story end? Explain your prediction.
8. What can you infer about the character of the man based on what he did
towards the end of the story?
9. What do you think of the writer? Could be he male or female? What makes
you think so?
10. What modern-day issues do you think is the writer trying to critique? What
makes you think so?
Analysis ( 15 minutes)
1. How did you arrive at your answers to the questions in the viewing
worksheet?
2. Do you consider making predictions from films easy? Why yes? Why no?
3. How do you think predictions differ from inferences?
Before letting the participants watch the resource person’s video, present to them
first the following questions:
Pre-Viewing Questions:
1. What is an inference? What is a prediction?
2. In what ways are inference and prediction similar?
3. How does inference differ from a prediction?
4. Why is inferring important?
5. How can teachers facilitate discussion about inferences?
Viewing Session:
Title: Making Inferences and Predicting Outcomes
Resource Person: Marla C. Papango, PRIMALS JHS National Training of Trainers
Discussion:
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After watching the video, let the participants process the information they gathered
by asking them to answer the pre-viewing questions presented earlier.
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Application ( 25 minutes)
Divide the participants into five groups. Let them read the article, Effects of Video
Game Addiction by Scott McLean; after which they will work on the following tasks:
Exit Slips
Wind down the session by asking the participants to write in the cut out paper leaves
the phrase that will complete this:
Closing
Say: “Before we end our LAC session today, let me share with you a quote from
Aldous Huxley:
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to
multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
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