What is inferring?

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I will be doing a post about inferring, what it is and what it is used for. Inferring means reading between the lines, some of you probably have heard this while in primary but didn't know what it is.

Reading between lines is when the author intends to give out some kind of information but that information so you have to look for information in that text along with you're own knowledge. I think that in fictional stories it is easier to infer information rather than non-fictional stories because in non-fictional stories it is stating real information.

A way to infer information is by writing down some literal information, meaning information that is 'right there'. Then you can infer something from that information.

Ex.

From the inferred part it says she was nervous this is because her mouth was dry and she had a big knot in her stomach. In my opinion, I would class that as being nervous, because sometimes when I get nervous my mouth goes dry.