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Teaching topic: Literacy (defined reading comprehension strategies): Inferring

All as described in Bowe, Treasa; Gleeson, Martin; Courtney, Ann. Building bridges of understanding: theory and actual classroom practices in multiple comprehension strategy instruction. Limerick: Mary Immaculate College, Curriculum Development Unit, 2012

"Inferring is the ability to recognise the author's meaning where it has not been explicitly stated. It is the ability to apply the evidence in the text to deduce the author's intention."

In: Bowe, Treasa; Gleeson, Martin; Courtney, Ann. Building bridges of understanding: theory and actual classroom practices in multiple comprehension strategy instruction: resource. Limerick: Mary Immaculate College, Curriculum Development Unit, [2012]. P.9.

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