How to Make an Inference in 6 Easy Steps
By an experienced English teacher and spoken English trainer with 10+ years of classroom experience You Already Know How to Make an Inference — You Just Don’t Know It Yet Here’s something that happens in my classroom almost every week. A student walks in, looks at me holding a stack of papers, and whispers to their friend, “I think we have a quiz today.” Nobody told them. It wasn’t written on the board. But they figured it out from the clues in front of them. That’s an inference. Learning how to make an inference is one of the most useful thinking skills you will ever develop. It helps you understand what you read, what you hear, and what happens around you — even when not…