Opération espionnage (French)

Operation Espionage is designed to encourage children aged 3½ to 6½ to develop the ability to make inferences, that is, to deduce information that is not explicitly provided in a situation. The child answers questions that relate, for example, to the problem, goal, action or emotion of a character in a given situation. He thus gets used to making inferences, a skill which will be particularly useful to him at school for understanding texts.

The game includes 84 inference question cards relating to:

a character's problem;
the emotion or internal state of a character;
the cause of a situation or the effect of that cause;
what will happen next in a situation;
a character's goal;
attempts to solve a problem;
the action, speech or thought of a character;
the location of a situation.
Level 1 questions focus on a character's problem, goal, or action, as well as the emotion they feel in a given situation. The child is also led to make some inferences about the cause of an emotion or a situation (e.g.: Why is the girl laughing?).

Level 2 includes questions about attempts to resolve a character's problem and what could happen as a result of a given situation (e.g.: What could the character do to resolve their problem? What will happen?).

At level 3, the child must often imagine the hypothetical outcome of a situation illustrated on the card. They are also required to make inferences about the place where a situation takes place (or will take place) and about the internal state of a character in a hypothetical situation (e.g.: Imagine that the boy overtakes the girl in the file. What emotion do you think the girl will feel?).