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Predicting a Mystery's Solution

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Practice making informed predictions. Have your class create a paper fortune-teller and ask questions about the future. They compare the fortune-telling process to the more informed kind of predictions they make while reading. They listen to parts of Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett, then record textual information on a Clue Tracker worksheet prior to making a prediction about the next event in the story.

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chapter books, books, reading comprehension strategies, reading comprehension, story structure, stories, literature, making predictions

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mystery genre, prediction, reading comprehension strategies, story structure, story structure graphic organizer, text clues, chapter books, literature, english language arts
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Grade
5th - 6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
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Skills Practice
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Common Core

RL.6.1

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