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Inferred Ideas and Connectors

Leonor Adelina Gamboa

Created on February 9, 2024

Inferred Ideas and Connevtors. Course on Reading Strategies for Law Students. Designed, edited and adapted by Leonor Adelina Gamboa, February 9, 2024.

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Reading Comprehension Techniques

click to learn how to identify explicit and implied idea.

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click to learn how to make inferences

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In previous sessions...

What topics do you remember from the previous sessions?

How are they related one to each other?

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Cohesion &Coherence

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click to learn how a paragraph is organised

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click to know how to create cohesion & coherence

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click to learn about the connectors

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Today's session

Activity 2

Exam 2

Inferred Ideas

Connectors

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Main idea

The main idea is related to the most relevant and important idea of ​​a paragraph and is surrounded by secondary ideas or supporting details. Basically, a main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or passage because it summarizes the author's main message.

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How can I find the Main idea?

What is said about the topic in this paragraph? Who or what is the paragraph about? What aspect or idea about who or what concerns the author? What is the main point the author is trying to make with these details? Does all or most of the material support this idea?

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Supportive Ideas

The main idea is related to the most relevant and important idea of ​​a paragraph and is surrounded by secondary ideas or supporting details. Basically, a main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or passage because it summarizes the author's main message.

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Supportive Ideas

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How to identify the implicit ideas?

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Inferred ideas

What does infer mean?

What does imply mean?

What's the difference between them?

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Explicit,Implict & Inferred Ideas

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Check these examples:

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Connectors

What a connector is?

Why do we use them?

Do you rememeber them?

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Connectors, connectives, linkers, linking words?

  • reason, purpose and result

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  • contrast
  • addition

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Signposting in texts

THE BOOK
Skimming
EXÁMENES
Scanning
Prediction
Master Class
About the Instructor
INTRO
Extra
Whatsapp

Reading Comprehension Techniques

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Connectors and Conjunctions

la función de las conjunciones y conectores es hacer que los enunciados de un texto fluyan de forma efectiva gracias a las relaciones dentro y entre oraciones o ideas (relationships within and between sentences or ideas).

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Transition Words

click on the link to learn them https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-transitional-words-and-phrases.html

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Text Pattern: Example

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Practice (1)

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  1. click here for a Reading Text to practice Inferring

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Practice (2)

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What is the difference between the connectors in your native language and in English?

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Next session...

What is "text structure"?

How text structure help us in Reading?

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Text Organization

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THE BOOK

What's Text Structure?

Skimming
EXÁMENES
Scanning
Prediction

"if you understand the organization, you can monitor your learning"

Master Class
About the Instructor
INTRO
Extra
Whatsapp

Reading Comprehension Techniques

THE BOOK
Skimming
EXÁMENES
Scanning
Prediction

What are the most common structures of texts?

Master Class
About the Instructor
INTRO
Extra
Whatsapp

Reading Comprehension Techniques

THE BOOK
Skimming
EXÁMENES
Scanning
Prediction
Master Class
About the Instructor
INTRO
Extra
Whatsapp

Reading Comprehension Techniques

References

Cambridge Coching. (2024). TOEFL Reading Inferece Questions. https://blog.cambridgecoaching.com/toefl-reading-inference-questions

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esl-lounge.com. (2024). TOEFL Grammar-Connectors. https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/toefl/toefl-058-grammar-connectors.php

Law School Admission Council, Inc. (2024). Reading Comprehension Sample Questions. https://www.lsac.org/lsat/taking-lsat/test-format/reading-comprehension/reading-comprehension-sample-questions

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. (n.d.) Juror Questionnaire. http://okcca.net/ouji-cr/1-10/

Verbling. (2024). Master the Inference Questions on the TOEFL iBT Reading. https://www.verbling.com/articles/post/master-the-inference-questions-on-the-toefl-ibt-reading-561d51f4f069d8fe38cebba3

Zebra Education Inc. (2024). TOEFL Reading Question Type - Inference Question. https://www.bestmytest.com/blog/toefl/toefl-reading-question-type-inference-question

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LSAT

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) i​s a standardized test administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning. The test is an integral part of the law school admission process in the United States, Canada (common law programs only), the University of Melbourne, Australia and a growing number of other countries.

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