Making Predictions Teaching Resources
Use this collection of resources when teaching students how to make predictions before reading a piece of text. Making predictions allows students to use information from the text, such as titles, headings, pictures, and diagrams to anticipate what will happen in the piece of text of they are about to read. Making predictions allow students to become actively involved in the reading process. They are able to envision what will come next in the text, based on their prior knowledge. Use the Reading Comprehension Strategy PowerPoint – Making Predictions to introduce your students to the concept and then work through the examples and the guided, whole-class activity to solidify the concept. Also provided are some posters to display in your elementary classroom, worksheets, bookmarks, and flashcards.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies Anchor Charts
Provide young readers with concrete examples of reading strategies with a set of 18 ready-made reading anchor charts.
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Making Predictions with Pictures - Worksheets
Practice making predictions based on illustrations with a set of printable Making Predictions With Pictures Worksheets.
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Making Predictions Task Cards
A set of 10 task cards to practice making predictions.
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Comprehension Task Cards - Making Predictions
A set of comprehension task cards to help students make predictions when reading.
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Make Predictions Poster
A poster highlighting how to make predictions when reading a piece of text.
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Predicting a Text - Poster and Worksheet
3 pages of resources for students to practice predicting text.
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Inference or Prediction? Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching your students the difference between an inference and a prediction.
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Making Predictions from Sentences - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to make predictions when reading.
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Making Predictions with Books - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when teaching students how to make predictions when reading.
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Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint - Predicting
A 14 slide editable PowerPoint template explaining the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
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Making Predictions - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Inference Car Classifieds - Worksheet
A series of car classifieds worksheets to use when teaching your students how to to make inferences when reading.
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Inference Realtor Advertisements - Worksheet
A series of realtor advertisement worksheets to use when teaching your students how to infer information from written texts.
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Comprehension Strategy Teaching Resource Pack - Making Predictions
An extensive resource pack helping students to learn how to make predictions.
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Predicting
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.