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Two Greedy Bears

For Teachers K - 2nd
Improving listening comprehension skills is the goal of this language arts instructional activity. Young readers listen to the story Two Greedy Bears, stopping to have discussions with a partner. They predict outcomes and make inferences...
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Rosa Parks

For Students 4th - 6th
Rosa Parks is a great book for studying the Civil Rights Movement. Use this packet of worksheets to track reading, elicit responses, and promote book-related activities. Character analysis, prediction and short essay skills will be...
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Esperanza Rising

For Students 4th - 6th
If you are considering reading Esperanza Rising with your class, this fine packet of worksheets may be what you're looking for. Students read the book in groups, utilize the packet to keep on track with their reading, and respond to what...
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The War of the Worlds

For Students 4th - 6th
Read The War of the Worlds with your class. Then you can enhance the reading experience through the use of these worksheets. Keeping track of reading, recording reader response, and various activities pertaining to the book are included....
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Any Small Goodness

For Students 4th - 6th
Are you thinking of reading Any Small Goodness with your students? Engage them with these worksheets. Sharpen prediction and response skills, in addition to creating a character analysis map. Also included, are some thoughtfully-written...
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Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read and complete an article filling in the blanks to make predictions before reading the full article. In this predictions instructional activity, students compare predictions to the actual parts of the article. Students...
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Repetition and Prediction

For Teachers K
Students discover how to predict the sequence of a story that repeats. They read different stories and predict what will happen to certain characters. They also finish sentences to create new lines in the book.
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Unwind: Anticipation Guide

For Teachers 7th - 10th
After responding to a series of prompts on an anticipation guide, readers of Unwind craft five predictions about what will happen in Neal Shusterman's young adult science fiction novel.    
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Weather Maps and Prediction

For Teachers 2nd
Young meteorologists read basic weather maps by learning about the symbols that are associated with them. This two-day lesson has some excellent demonstrations and activities to get youngsters thinking about the weather in scientific...
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Writing a Letter

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Here are three well-thought-out tasks intended to build good note taking and letter writing skills. The class reads three short letters, determines who wrote them (based on context) and takes notes as a pre-writing activity. They...
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Reading Comprehension 4: level 9

For Students 8th - 10th
Whether you use this reading comprehension activity as the basis for a short lesson on comprehension strategies or for additional practice, the passage about tricky octopi is sure to engage the interest of your young scientists. 
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Overcoming Obstacles

Reading, Listening, and Note Taking

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Active listening is all about thinking, asking questions, and making connections. That's the take-away from a lesson about active listening. Participants learn techniques for identifying important information, including how to ask...
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Predicting Storms and Weather

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use weather pattern worksheets to research how weather is predicted. In this weather prediction lesson plan, students predict the weather based on the wind, rain, currents, and other patterns.
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During Reading Strategies (Prediction, Self-Question, and Correct)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice their reading skills. For this reading fluency and comprehension lesson, students read instructor-selected passages and use metacognitive skills to predict, self-question, and correct.
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Making Predictions

For Students 5th - 6th
For this predicting outcomes worksheet, students use the information they already know and what the author is telling them to make a prediction. Students read several short passages and then write their predictions on the line.
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Making Predictions about the Climax

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the passage titled Hide and Seek and predict what will happen in the climax of the story by using the rising action. In this climax lesson plan, 4th graders use a worksheet provided to them.
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Dracula: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
“There are often dangers from snow and wolves and night.” Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest,” which may or may not have been the first chapter of the original Dracula manuscript, is the focus of a Directed Reading Thinking Activity...
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Direct Reading Thinking Activity Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

For Students 4th - 8th
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth novel in the series by J.K. Rowling, is the focus of a directed reading worksheet that begins by asking readers to examine the book cover and chapter titles and to predict what the story...
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The Jacket: Journal Templates Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore this story involving prejudice and racism to enhance learners' comprehension skills. The story The Jacket by Andrew Clements involves an African American boy who is falsely accused of stealing someone's jacket. This teacher's...
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Tuck Everlasting

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use literary terms while discussing literature with their peers. They explore literature on a deeper level. Students formulate their opinions regarding response to literature, as this lesson helps students practice...
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Predicting and Summarizing Leads to Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice making predictions in order to aid in the creation of meaning when reading text. Before reading a passage, they make a prediction based on previous actions as to what will happen next in the text. Students compare and...
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Predicting Our Way to the Top

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make predictions. In this prediction lesson students enter quotes into their journal as they read. They write down quotes from each chapter that they feel make predictions about the story.
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Reading Response Questions

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this reading response worksheet, learners answer twenty three questions in short answer format. They answer questions on their reading relating to basic facts, making predictions, explaining why or how, making connections, and giving...
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Lesson 3: Predicting Beyond the Text

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders make predictions beyond the text. In this prediction instructional activity, 2nd graders read a story and predict what happens to the characters after the story is over by using evidence from what they read. They read...

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