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Explain to the students that our experiences and knowledge, combined with the clues we see around us, shape the inferences we make every day about everyday events e.g. what type of mood your teacher is in (using their facial expressions and body language as clues), what the weather is like (using the sky and temperature as clues), how long a journey will take (using the busyness of the traffic as a clue). Our experiences and knowledge, combined with textual clues, can also help us to make inferences while we are reading. Year Three Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1680 - Scootle ) Year Four Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts (ACELY1692 - Scootle