Recognize reasonable predictions of future events within a given context. SPI 0501.8.2

Links verified on 9/12/2014

1. Drawing Conclusions - [designed for grade 3] Read the story and choose the correct word to complete the sentence.
2. Drawing Conclusions - [designed for grade 3] Read the story and answer the question.
3. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (3-5 activities included)
4. Making predictions lesson - This fairy tale and follow-up activities will help teach critical thinking and making predictions skills.
5. Prediction Cards - Prediction Cards combine the fun of guessing with the joy of making art. Students use details from the beginning of a story to encourage classmates to predict what will happen and to inspire them to read the story themselves.
6. Prediction Form - use information they had from previous reading and from their own experiences to write a short prediction
7. Prediction Game - predict what picture lies behind the squares
8. Reading With Meaning - Show your thinking behind predictions using the text to justify or explain your answers
9. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (3-5 activities included)
10. Strategies for Better Reading - read between the lines by using the power of inference, predict what will happen next in a story, and identify the main ideas in what you read
11. Writing a Branching Story Using Excel - a step by step module on writing with Excel
    1. Billy Bear - [sample of a branching story] a simple story with several possible endings depending on the decisions a reader makes [in the form of an Excel workbook]
    2. The Town Witch - [sample of a branching story] a story with several possible endings depending on the decisions a reader makes [in the form of an Excel workbook]
12. Use Predictions to Help Kids Think Deeply about Books - Predicting involves more than trying to figure out what happens next. As kids find evidence to form hunches, they also ask questions, recall facts, reread, skim, infer, draw conclusions, and, ultimately, comprehend the text more fully. (3-5) The Prediction Book Report
13. The World's Greatest Contralto by Babette Albin - As you read the story, write your questions and ideas about it on another sheet of paper. Then complete the next page

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