Inferencing, the Behemoth of Reading Tests
Shoot at it all you want. No matter what you do it's coming. To quote Bill & Ted quoting Poison, "Every rose has its thorn," and if you haven't met realized how thorny inferencing can be, you haven't been teaching Reading in the United States for very long.
With the intention of increasing rigor, tests have become less about whether students can locate information in text and more about whether students can interpret what they read by connecting the information to background knowledge, other information in the text, or synonyms in their own vocabulary.
Inferencing is Godzilla.
To try to narrow this topic down about how to tackle this behemoth, I want to specifically examine inferencing in fiction.
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