Meaning is not delivered to us on a silver platter. We must be equipped as readers, writers, viewer, listeners, investigators, and communicators to excavate it…dig it out. The cornerstone tool in our metacognitive arsenal is the ability to make inferences.
But, what exactly does that mean? How is inferring different than making a prediction? And how do you do this across different texts, genres, and multimodal contexts? These are the questions I have been exploring with teachers and students this week in the following presentation.

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