When you make an inference, you combine what you read with __
the author’s point of view.
the details in the text.
what you already know.
what you want to learn.
To make inferences, readers combine clues from the text with their own background knowledge to figure something out about the story. It is basically like a math equation. You add text clues to what a reader already knows and those should combine to help the reader understand the story.
