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The Vocabulary of Inferring – Making Inferences about photographs
1. Review the vocabulary below. You will need to use a different word or sentence frame for each sentence
you write. (Chart created by Fairfax County Public Schools Office of ESOL Services 2019)
Sentence Starters
My guess is___.
I think___.
I predict ___.
My hypothesis___.
This could mean___.
Maybe___.
It could be that___.
I know ______ because__.
Based on___ I think___.
I infer that___.
I think ___because___.
The ___ says ___, so I think__.
I
This reminds me of ___ so___.
I conclude that___
because__.
I can infer that _____because I
know___.
One connection I can make to this is
________ ,so___________.
The evidence suggests that___. My
hypothesis was supported
because___.
Words and Phrases
between the lines
deduce
hypothesis
perhaps
schema
think
conclude
evidence
infer
predict
specific information
context clue
explain
maybe
reasoning
suggest
2. Look at these pictures. Infer things that you think are true about the situations in these pictures.
Under the pictures, write three inferences about each picture. Use vocabulary from the chart in every
sentence. I have done the first one as an example.
Example Picture:
1) I think this car is in an English-speaking
country because the street signs are in
English.
2)
Picture #1
1)
2)
3)
Picture #2
1)
2)
3)