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Year 6 · English · Reading for SATs · Lesson 2

Inference

SATs reading inference: using clues and prior knowledge, supporting answers with evidence, and the PEE structure, using an original text.

Whiteboard video lesson: Inference

14-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Explain inference
  • Find clues in a text
  • Infer feelings and motives
  • Support answers with evidence

The method

  1. What's asked?
  2. Find clues.
  3. Infer.
  4. PEE.

Key words: inference, clue, evidence, PEE, character.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Is the answer to an inference question written directly?

  1. Step 1: Clues

Answer: no - you work it out from clues

Question 2

‘Sam kept glancing at the classroom door.’ What was Sam hoping?

  1. Step 1: Who?

Answer: that Joe would arrive

Question 3

‘The seat beside him, where Joe always sat, was still empty.’ What does ‘still’ suggest?

  1. Step 1: Waiting

Answer: Sam has been waiting for a while