Making predictions is an excellent reading strategy. Work on building this into your pupils' toolkit of strategies by trying out the process outlined here for reading the very beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The teacher and class begin reading the play, stopping at strategic points to consider three leading questions.

Concepts

guided reading, making predictions, reading strategies, existentialism, tom stoppard, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Consider creating a graphic organizer on which pupils can note down ideas during this strategy; the stopping points can be quoted in one column, and the three main questions can be the titles of three additional columns

Classroom Considerations

• You may wish to provide a bit of background on the play before beginning, focusing on its relationship with Hamlet

Pros

• The resource details specific lines to stop at and discuss; questions and prompts for these pauses are also included
• The plan scaffolds the exercise by starting the strategy as a whole class and then asking learners to continue individually

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.3 RL.11-12.3