What’s Next?

Guess what comes next! Teach your students to make a prediction based on textual evidence.

Need extra help for EL students? Try the Sentence Parts and Making Predictions pre-lesson.

Need extra help for EL students? Try the Sentence Parts and Making Predictions pre-lesson.

Students will be able to make a prediction based on evidence in a fictional text.

The adjustment to the whole group lesson is a modification to differentiate for children who are English learners.

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(2 minutes)

Tell students that together you are going to learn how to make a prediction while reading.
Review the definition of a prediction (i.e., something you think will happen based on clues or evidence).

Beginning

Provide student-friendly definitions of "evidence," "clues," and "prediction" in English and L1 if applicable.

Intermediate

Have students do a think-pair-share activity to discuss the meaning of "prediction" orally.