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MOMS AND DADS,

Have you ever talked with a child that just seems more capable of drawing conclusions or engaging in more "adult-type" conversation than the average child? Children that have this capability have received training in how to read, think, and reason. First, they were taught how to read every word on the page and second, they were taught how to make inferences from what they read.

When a child learns to make inferences, it simply means that he can read a page and draw a particular conclusion of his own, not just from the basic information stated directly in the text, but also from the information that he gathers from clues or hints that he finds inbetween the lines of the text.