Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Cause and Effect
Simple and effective method for introducing primary students to the concept of cause and effect in literature.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Plenty of Predictions [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text stopping to make predictions and then determine if those predictions were correct. Materials are included.
Scholastic
Scholastic: A Not So Glorious Victory
After reading "A Not-So-Glorious," Victory, which is included on this page, have your students practice identifying cause and effect using the printable worksheet.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Laura Numeroff Biography
This resource features a biography of the author Laura Numeroff. Students and teachers will benefit from this inside look at the life and work of this children's author.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is the Pulgar?
This is a instructional activity for students in grades 4-6 to learn visualization, prediction, and sequencing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Lip Balm Science
During this lesson, young scholars will make three types of lip balm. They will then predict which lip balm they think will be preferred by testers and test that prediction by collecting data from testers who sample the lip balms. They...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Legend of the Mummy's Curse Fact or Fiction?
This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson used to introduce the scientific method to students. Students will make a prediction on whether they think the curse is true or false. Students will listen to a podcast describing a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Guess My Shape
The students will make the connection between 2-D and 3-D shapes using modeling clay and geometric solids and participate in an interactive web lesson. Students will make predictions about what 2-D shape they think will be made when they...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching Measurement: Literature and Manipulatives
The tradebook, Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen, is an excellent tool in teaching measurement. Students will engage in activities involving different types of measurement. In the story, five animal friends decide to take a boat ride....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Predictions
This activity will use the trade book, Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome, to teach making predictions. Students will also learn the true story of Balto and create their own fictional story of Balto.
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Beanie Babies, Profit or Loss
Is you Beanie Baby business booming or busted! Figure out if you made a profit or lost money in this mathematic computation activity. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection that focuses on adding and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Two Bad Ants Realism vs. Fiction Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was designed to accompany Scott Foresman Reading- 3rd grade- Unit 6- Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg. It covers a variety of reading strategies, including making predictions, context...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Bike Ride
On this one page website sharpen your logic and rate measurement skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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.
Other
Nsw Dept. Of Ed.: Predicting [Pdf]
PDF page from the New South Wales, Australia, Department of Education and Training that contains suggestions for helping students predict the outcome of something they are about to read. It includes some suggestions for how to achieve...