Effective readers use pictures, titles, headings, and text—as well as personal experiences—to make predictions before they begin to read and as they are reading. They think ahead while reading and anticipate what will happen in the text.
After making predictions, they read the text, decide if they were right or not, and make new predictions. The process of reading should be a continual and repeated process of predict and confirm.
Making predictions often is based on asking questions. Students must wonder, examine, doubt, and inquire as they read.
Examples of starts of predictions might include:
This problem . . .
In the end, she will. . .
I wonder what will happen when . . .
He has to . . .
That character will . . .
She will solve the problem by . . .
They are going to . . .
I think __________ will be the one to . . .
Surely they are going to . . .
Next, the author will . . .
If I was there I wonder what . . .
Students, as you listened to the start of
Watchers Rewind today during read aloud, what predictions did you have? What will happen to Lianna, Ripley, and Adam? What part in the story will the Watchers play?
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