How can you tell what is going to happen next in a story? Learn to make predictions with five sections of stories. Kids read the beginning, and then write what they believe will happen next. Additionally, they provide evidence for their predictions.

Concepts

making predictions, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, textual evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add to a homework packet or literacy center
• Have kids write a larger portion of the story based on their predictions
• Do the same activity with text from kids' novels or short stories that they are reading in class

Classroom Considerations

• Passages have long paragraphs, which might be hard for struggling readers to follow

Pros

• Fosters critical reading skills as well as inference skills
• Each passage provides details for kids to use as they make their predictions

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.4.1