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When you encounter an inferential comprehension question, the answer isn’t on the page. Often, there’s no one correct answer. This video explains how to find clues by reading a text carefully and making connections between what’s written and what you already know about the topic. With clear explanations and text examples on-screen, this is a helpful resource for English classrooms. Show Less

When a writer uses the ‘show, don’t tell’ technique to communicate a narrative, the reader must work out what is happening by making inferences. This video demonstrates how to ‘read between the lines’, looking at how dialogue is delivered, to understand more about the unstated messages in a narrative text. With clear explanations and text examples on-screen, this is a helpful resource for English classrooms. Show Less

Reviewers use evaluative language to make judgments and express their feelings and opinions about people or things, even if they don’t state their views outright. This video discusses how you can infer the meaning of a restaurant review by looking at word choice and punctuation. With clear explanations and text examples on-screen, this is a helpful resource for English classrooms. Show Less

Figurative language appeals to your imagination and asks you to make connections between what is written in the text and what you already know about the world. This video illustrates how to infer meaning from figurative language to gain a deeper understanding of characters and settings in narrative texts. With clear explanations and text examples on-screen, this is a helpful resource for English classrooms. Show Less

Often, there’s more to a text than just the words you can see. This video shows how, by thinking through what you already know about a topic, you can identify the unstated or inferred messages in a text and gain a better understanding of a narrative. With clear explanations and text examples on-screen, this is a helpful resource for English classrooms. Show Less

The features of any text, such as structure, word choice or grammar, provide hints and clues to help you understand its type and purpose. This video demonstrates how you can look for these features in a recipe and a book review to determine the text type. With clear explanations and text examples on-screen, this is a helpful resource for English classrooms. Show Less