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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...
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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...
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Read Works: Predicting 1st Grade Unit
[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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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.
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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...
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Read Works: Predicting 2nd Grade Unit
[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 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...
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Read Works: Predicting 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson designed to teach young scholars to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The lesson is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One by Judy...
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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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial
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: 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.
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Read Works: The Boy and a Wish
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy who was born with a physical deformity and was then turned invisible. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prince George's Community College: Reading the Rock Record [Pdf]
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: Climbing the Walls
[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
[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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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.
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Read Works: The Scientific Method
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage lists steps in the scientific method. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...