Use this Making Predictions PowerPoint to engage students in the learning of predicting during reading.
Making Predictions PowerPoint: An Essential Teaching Resource
This Making Predictions PowerPoint has been designed to help students actively predict outcomes, encouraging engagement in reading comprehension. The PowerPoint slides are designed to develop key reading comprehension strategies and include the following content:
- a definition of the strategy
- an explanation of how and when to use the strategy
- examples of metacognitive questions to ask when applying the strategy
- a guided, whole-class activity (based on a literary text)
- an activity for the students to complete independently.
By teaching students how to make predictions in reading, this resource will foster critical thinking and help deepen your students understanding of text structures and clues.
Teaching the Predicting Reading Strategy
By teaching the predicting reading strategy to your students, you’re encouraging them to make thoughtful predictions, helping them gain confidence in their reading abilities and comprehension skills. Other skills students will grow when learning more about the predicting skill include:
- Fosters children to actively read and engage with the text.
- Grows their inferencing abilities during reading.
- Promotes an emotional connecting to the text.
Implementing Effective Reading Comprehension Strategies
If you are wanting to implement effective reading comprehension strategies in your classroom, this Making Predictions PowerPoint is a fantastic start, with a great explanation and fantastic follow up activities to reinforce predictions you’re setting yourself and your students up for success.
Use the dropdown menu to choose between the Google Slide version or the PowerPoint.
Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and a Teach Starter Collaborator, contributed to this resource.
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