Predict

Predicting: a beyond the text strategic action, readers think about what may happen next.

Minilesson Resources

Predicting Minilessons and Practice Activities: from Teacher 2 Teacher, includes lesson ideas, videos of sample lessons, suggested mentor texts.


Predicting: from ohiorc.org, a large resource for lessons and ideas to teach and practice the comprehension skill of predicting.

It Doesn't Have to End That Way:Using Prediction Strategies with Literature: from readwritethink.org, this lesson (a bit longer than a typical minilesson) includes many suggestions for extensions as well as student reflection and assessment.

Anchor Charts

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Grade Level Expectations

(from Continuum of Literacy Learning, Fountas and Pinnell, 2012)

PreK

• use knowledge of language to anticipate the text
• predict the outcome of a story after reading the beginning and middle
• make predictions based on personal experiences, content knowledge, and information from the pictures

Kindergarten

• use knowledge of language to anticipate the text
• predict the outcome of a story after reading the beginning and middle
• make predictions based on personal experiences, content knowledge, information from the pictures, and author’s clues

First Grade

• predict the outcome of a story (e.g., solution to the problem)
• make predictions based on personal experiences, content knowledge, and similar texts
• confirm or disconfirm predictions based on information from the text
• justify prediction using evidence
• predict what characters will do based on character traits

Second Grade

• predict the outcome of a story
• make predictions based on personal experiences, content knowledge, and similar texts
• confirm or disconfirm predictions based on information from the text
• justify prediction using evidence
• predict what characters will do based on character traits

Third Grade

• make predictions based on personal experiences, content knowledge, similar texts, and illustrations
• confirm or disconfirm predictions based on information from the text
• justify prediction using evidence
• predict what characters will do based on character traits

Fourth Grade

• make predictions based on personal experiences, content knowledge, similar texts, and illustrations
• confirm or disconfirm predictions based on information from the text
• justify prediction using evidence
• change prediction as new information is gathered from a text

Fifth Grade