Infer and Deduce

Infer and Deduce

This English teaching resource is designed to help pupils learn how to develop deduction skills when reading fiction and non-fiction texts. The PowerPoint uses images and texts to convey how writers use inference in a text to communicate with the reader. This fully editable PowerPoint resource can be used as a starter activity, a standalone lesson or built into a scheme of work on wider reading, inference and deduction skills. The activities include:

• What is inference and deduction?

• Use of optical illusions to convey the concept of hidden meanings.

• Illustrations and photographs designed to sharpen deduction skills.

• Extract from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to develop deduction skills when dealing with written text with an accompanying worksheet

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