What you need to know
To achieve 100+ you need to use evidence from the text to make inferences and deductions, and to justify your views.
- In fiction texts, writers often use clues to imply meaning about characters or events.
- In non-fiction texts, writers often use clues to imply meaning or give a biased opinion.
- Good readers:
- make deductions and draw conclusions about a character’s feelings based on their speech and actions;
- infer information that is not stated directly;
- support their inferences with a precise explanation of the evidence;
- draw conclusions about the plot based on past events.
- If quoting directly from the text, write quotations in quotation marks.
- Inference requires a range of skills: asking questions, collecting and analysing evidence, making connections and predictions, making informed decisions and drawing conclusions.