William & Mary
Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet
Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...
Worthington City Schools
From Survive to Thrive: What Great Substitute Teachers Do Differently
Thinking about signing up as a substitute teacher? Subbing is not for the faint of heart but with the help of the thoughtful advice in a detailed guide, you can develop the skills you need to be a great, professional substitute teacher.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Making Predictions and Inferences
First graders will engage in a shared reading of "Mr. C's Dinner" so that we can build a foundation for understanding what it takes to make good predictions and inferences.
Read Works
Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson utilizing the book No Roses for Harry! by Gene Zionin in which students make a prediction and then support it with details from the text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Other
Fcps Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: Activity #1: Making Predictions
This activity focuses on making predictions through critical thinking. Students read the title and view a few pictures from a story prior to reading it and record their predictions. After reading the story, students then compare their...
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit focused on students making predictions using details from the text found in Marvin and the Meanest Girl by Suzy Kline, and making predictions within a historical context in the book...
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Picture Clues and Repeated Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle to teach students predict the outcome of a story by using clues provided in pictures and in repeated texts. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: It Doesn't Have to End That Way
Literary response and prediction are the focus of this lesson plan. Knowing story structure is an important skill for literary analysis, and this gives teachers a way to help learners develop this skill. Includes links to web resources,...
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting the Future
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a futurist named Garry Golden and his predictions about transportation in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Inference and Prediction
Students will learn the difference between making a prediction and an inference as they engage in class discussions about both reading skills, play a game, look at art, and listen to songs.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Prediction Relay
Prediction Relay is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate. The Prediction Relay...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta)
The Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) is a strategy that guides students in asking questions about a text, making predictions, and then reading to confirm or refute their predictions. The DRTA process encourages students to be...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Reading Response Activities for Geronimo Stilton Book Series
Practice reading and comprehensions skills using the Geronimo Stilton book series. Choose activities from areas such as character studies, analysis of words and pictures, plot and making predictions. Reproducibles are included.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Guided Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson helps students to make predictions using the pictures and text of "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."
PBS
Pbs: Multiple Methods of Reading Instruction
This article surveys three strategies to incorporate into classroom repertoire. They include guided reading, choral reading, and readers' theater.
Read Works
Read Works: Storm Warning
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about an interview between a storm survivor and his son. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Hard Times for Honeybees
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about problems created by the decreasing bee population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Whoop It Up!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about s scientist who work to teach cranes to migrate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Secrets of the Great Pyramid
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about discoveries inside the Great Pyramid. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Hide and Seek
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a girl who is babysitting her twin cousins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Place in Space
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a girl named Eva who is lifting off on a space ship. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Boy and a Wish
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a baby who was born different and a wish that should not have been granted. Questions at various points throughout the text help students build skills in making predictions.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.