Patricia M. Sorrentino
Making inferences is a vital skill for students to gain confidence in doing. Making inferences consists of making educated assumptions about a piece of work without having all of the information. For example, if a master of inferencing was to turn on the news and read the headline "One Dies in Car Crash," he would not need all the information to understand that there was an accident involving a car, which resulted in the death of one person. Students, who cannot infer, will not be able to make educated assumptions about the news story unless given all the information.