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Reading Strategy 2

“Predict what will be learned or what will happen.”

Good readers use the title and cover of the text, picture clues inside the text and background knowledge to predict what will happen. As they read, students will confirm or discard predictions and continue to make new ones.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Anticipation Guide
  • Brainstorming
  • Building from Clues
  • Character Web
  • Directed Reading/Thinking
  • Guided Imagery (Secondary)
  • Know-Wonder-Learn
  • Memoir
  • Picture Walk
  • Question and Revise
  • Reading Like an Author
  • Response Logs/Reflective Journal
  • Say Something
  • Snatching a Series
  • Sort and Predict
  • Split Images
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking Like an Author
  • Vocabulary Self-Collection
  • What’s in a Name?
  • Who Said What?

Primary
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Bats at the Library
  • Clic Clac Meuh!
  • Click, Clack, Moo
  • Dooby Dooby Moo
  • Emu
  • Frisson l’écureuil
  • Help! A Story of Friendship
  • I Wish You More
  • In My Heart
  • Is There Really a Human Race?
  • Le Zloukch
  • Move Over, Rover!
  • My Blue Is Happy
  • One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab
  • Peace Is an Offering
  • Salmon Creek
  • Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
  • The Name Jar
  • The Salamander Room
  • You Call That Brave?
  • You’ve Got Dragons

Intermediate
  • Baseball Saved Us
  • Crickwing
  • Duncan’s Way
  • Le livre des petits pourquoi
  • Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
  • The New Kid on the Block
  • One Grain of Rice
  • Out of My Mind
  • Shi-shi-etko
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)
  • Wonder

Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Climate Change
  • Legend of the Sugar Girl
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • Lowered Riverbed Reveals “Secrets”
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • Thank You, M’am
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
  • The Three Questions
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • To This Day
  • Vaccine Effectivness
  • Way Home

teacher hints

Frequently remind students to use what they know and what the book says to make "good guesses." Students must be able to support their predictions.

Suggested teacher questions:

"From the title/pictures, can you guess what this story might be about? What makes you think so?"

"Looking at the headings/subtitles/first sentence, what will this section be about?"

"Did our predictions match the text? If not, why not?"

"Now, what do you think is going to happen?"

"How do you think ________ will react? Why do you think that?"

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