Reading strategy: Predicting

compiled by M.Siwak
Predicting
Thinking about what might happen is called making
predictions.
How many slides do you think you will be shown?
How many times do you think the word predict will
appear in this slide show?
When you make predictions you are like a detective.
You use clues from the text, clues from the graphics
and your own experiences to make educated guesses.

Get ready to turn and
share your thoughts
with a partner.
Get ready to make
some predictions!
Make a prediction !
Make a prediction!
Make a prediction!
Make a prediction!
Make a prediction!
Good readers predict..
Good readers make educated guesses. They make
inferences. Not wild guesses.
Good readers find evidence that may or may not
support their predictions as they read.
Good readers continue to make new predictions as
they read. They base their new predictions on the
clues that they find.
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Miserrable vitches! she yelled. useless lazy vitches! Feeble
frribbling vitches! You are a heap of idle good-for-nothing
vurms! A shudder went through the audience. The Grand High
Witch was clearly in an ugly mood and they knew it. I had a
feeling that something awful was going to happen soon. I am
having my breakfast this morning, cried The Grand High Witch,
and I am looking out of the vindow at the beach, and vot am I
seeing? I am seeing a rrreevolting sight! I am seeing hundreds, I
am seeing thousands of rrrotten rrree-pulsive little children
playing on the sand! It is putting me rrright off my food! Vye
have you not got rrrid of them? she screamed. Vye have you
not rrrubbed them all out, these filthy smelly children?...........
Make a prediction!
My prediction
My
experiences
Clues and
evidence I
found
What I
already
knew