Comprehension Skills and Strategies
Module I: Making Predictions
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Reading is the to
learning!
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Reading Comprehension
is the ability to read text,
process it and understand its
meaning.
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Purpose Predictions Inferences
Comparing & Making Cause and
Contrasting Connections Effect
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Objectives
▪ To increase our understanding of the reading
comprehension strategy making predictions
▪ To use sentence frames and graphic organizers to
support student use of this strategy
▪ To participate in learning activities in order to support
learning at home
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Making Predictions
A strategy in which readers use
information from the text they
are reading and their personal
experiences to anticipate what
they are about to read.
Making Predictions
Why?
Anticipation and prediction are key characteristics of effective
reading
Promotes the use of prior knowledge
Improves the ability to draw inferences
Ongoing process that actively engages the reader
Improves retention
Making Predictions
How?
Use title, illustrations and text features to make predictions
Focus on the text at hand
Constantly think ahead
Refine, revise, and verify predictions as you obtain additional
information while reading
Repeat the process and make new predictions
Making Predictions
Let’s Practice!
Graphic Organizer
First Then My prediction is…
Was your prediction confirmed? _______
If not, what happened instead?___________________
Sentence Frames
1. I predict that __________ will happen because_____________.
2. At first I thought ___________, but now I expect ____________.
3. I foresee ___________ will__________ because_____________.
4. Since ____________, I can assume that __________ will ____________.
5. I wish to change my prediction to_______ because ________________.
6. My prediction was confirmed/verified when ____________________.
7. My prediction was refuted when _________________.
8. After analyzing the text features, I hypothesize that_______________.
Making Predictions
Making Predictions
“Mr. Nibbles”
Making Predictions
“Mr. Nibbles”
What event is most likely to occur next?
Mr. Nibbles is going to get caught in that mousetrap.
What evidence from the text and from your own experiences
support your prediction?
I believe this because the device that Mr. Nibbles encounters is a mousetrap. He
is attempting to remove cheese from a mousetrap. This will probably cause him
to get caught by the mousetrap.
What are the benefits of using the strategy
Making Predictions during reading?
A. Improves the ability to draw inferences
B. Improves retention
C. You can enjoy a future career with the
Psychic Network.
D. A and B
Home Practice
PREDICTING VOCABULARY
Select 3-4 words from a book/poem/article that your child is going to
read.
Ask your child to predict the definitions of the words based on word
parts, root words, and prior knowledge.
Ask your child to write sentences that he/she might expect to see in the
selection.
Ask your child to read and to evaluate his/her sentences.
Home Practice
TOUR OF A BOOK
Using a book, ask your child to make a list of the different text features
that supply clues about the text such as: chapter titles, pictures, maps,
table of contents, and book cover.
Based on this information, ask your child to make a prediction about
what the text will be.
Home Practice
NEWS STORIES
Select a newspaper article.
Ask your child to cover the story with a piece of paper, showing only the
headline.
Ask your child to read the headline aloud to make a prediction about the story
and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Ask your child to read the first paragraph of the story and discuss whether he/she
can confirm or reject prediction.
Continue reading and stopping along the way to make predictions.
Objectives
▪ To increase our understanding of the reading
comprehension strategy making predictions
▪ To use sentence frames and graphic organizers to
support student use of this strategy
▪ To participate in learning activities in order to support
learning at home
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