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Prince George's Community College: Reading the Rock Record [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an in-depth activity where students create a rock layer formation using different colors of playdough and investigate the types of folds and rock formations that might occur. They take core samples through anticlines and...
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Read Works: Predicting 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit designed to teach students to make predictions and support them with details from the text. Lessons are based on the books Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes and No Roses for Harry! by...
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Read Works: Predicting 2nd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use textual clues and prior knowledge to make predictions and revise incorrect predictions. Lessons are based on the books The Stories Huey...
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Read Works: Predicting 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a instructional activity designed to teach students to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The instructional activity is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain...
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Read Works: Place in Space

For Teachers 5th
[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.
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Read Works: Storm Warning

For Teachers 5th
[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.
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Read Works: Hard Times for Honeybees

For Teachers 4th
[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.
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Read Works: Whoop It Up!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
[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.
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Read Works: Secrets of the Great Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd
[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.
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Read Works: Hide and Seek

For Teachers 4th
[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.
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Read Works: Climbing the Walls

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about a new kind of tape scientists created that people could use to climb walls. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Read Works: The Two Best Cakes

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about two cake bakers who both want to be the best. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: 1st Grade Unit: Supporting Predictions

For Teachers 1st
[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...
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Fcps Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment: Activity #1: Making Predictions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Read Works: Predicting 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 4th
[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...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...
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Read Works: Predicting the Future

For Students 6th
[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.
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Read Works: The Sandwich Thief

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a boy named Mike who decided to make himself a sandwich. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Meet the Emperors

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about emperor penguins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Living on the Moon

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about visits to the moon. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Duck Out of Water

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a girl who is invited to a new friend's birthday party. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Magician

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a boy named Simon who got a magic kit for his birthday. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Taste This

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a boy trying to decide what he would like to be when he grows up. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...