Reading Skills: Making Predictions
These sites focus on making predictions as a reading strategy that students can use before and during reading. Learn different strategies such as using first lines, titles, pictures, and more to make predictions. Includes examples, graphic organizers, video clips, slides, lesson plans, and online activities. There is also a link to eThemes Resource on Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students.
Grades
- 5,
- 6
Links
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First Lines
These strategies focus on how students can make predictions about a book or text by reading the first lines of story. NOTE: This site has a link to a social network site.
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Anticipation Guide
This page has guidelines for using anticipation as a strategy to increase students prediction skills before reading. Includes templates and examples for different subject areas. NOTE: This site has a link to a social network site.
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ReadWriteThink: Unwinding A Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
This lesson plan uses circular and cyclical plot stories to teach about making predictions in reading and writing. NOTE: There are links to external sites.
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ReadWriteThink: Using the Prediction Strategy to Set Purposes for Reading
See a teacher model prediction strategies and students then apply the strategy to the reading.
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Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA)
Here is another strategy that can help students make predictions about the text that they are going to read. NOTE: This site has a link to a social network site.
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Prediction and Inference
This 13-page slide describes the differences between prediction and inference strategies. NOTE: This site contains ads.
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Make Predictions
Watch two video clips about how teachers used word banks and text features to make predictions.
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Activity: Making Predictions
Students make predictions after viewing the title and pictures of an online story. Then they check their predictions by reading the story.
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Making Prediction: Implementation Guide
This seven-page PDF file has activities that use the list-group-label as a method for making predictions when approaching a new reading assignment.
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Follow the Clues
This two-page PDF file worksheet has an a graphic organizer and examples of using clues while reading a story to make predictions about the story.
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Education World: Making Predictions: "The King's Choice"
In this lesson plan, students will make predictions on a fairy tale, The King's Choice. Scroll down for more activities and resources for making predictions. NOTE: This site contains ads.
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eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students
These websites can help elementary students learn how to infer while reading. There are activities, graphic organizers, and short lessons on inference. Includes a link on inference for middle school students.
Education Standards
- AU
- AL
- MO
- NV
- OK
- DE
