STARS: Reading Success Strategies
Explore strategies for analyzing last names and inferring family occupations. Learn to draw conclusions from given details and identify implicit information. Enhance your reading skills with practical exercises and insightful insights.
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STARS: Strategies to Achieve Reading Success
Lesson 8: Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Many last names reflect the occupations once held by family members with that name. Two such common names are Baker and Carpenter. Two less obvious names related to occupations are Collier and Coward. Collier is a medieval word meaning coal man, and the name Coward comes from the term cow-herd, meaning one who herds cows.
Lets draw a conclusion Think about what the author tells you Also think about what is suggested.
What details are given? Last names reflect occupations once held by family members of that name
What information is not directly stated? The author does not state what kind of work people with the name Baker or Carpenter did. The author does state what kind of work was done by people with the name Collier or Coward
What can you figure out on your own? People with the last name of Baker or Carpenter had a family member who was once a baker or carpenter People who were named ____________ were coal miners. People with the last name Coward had family members who were once _______________________________ What other last names do you know that may be linked to a family occupation?
Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences (Write this.) Pay attention to people, places, and objects that are not fully presented in the reading passage. Use the details that are given in the reading passage, as well as what you know from your own life, to draw a conclusion or making an inference.
