Predicting
Predicting
The prediction phase involves readers in actively combining their own background knowledge with what they have gathered from the text. It is therefore important to Activate Prior Knowledge before the reading commences. With a narrative text students imagine what might happen next. With an informational text, students predict what they might learn or read about.
Predicting involves combining the reader’s prior knowledge, new knowledge from the text, and the text’s structure to create hypotheses related to the direction of the text and the author’s intent in writing.
Example questions for teachers:
What do you think will happen next?
What words/images do you expect to see or hear in this text?
What might happen next?
Why do you think that?
What helped you make that prediction?
Were your predictions accurate?
How did you confirm your predictions?
Have you read/seen/heard about this topic anywhere else?
Example teaching idea
Individual or small group activity:
Before and after chart: Ask students to list predictions before and during reading. As they read students either confirm or reject their predictions.
The prediction phase involves readers in actively combining their own background knowledge with what they have gathered from the text. It is therefore important to Activate Prior Knowledge before the reading commences. With a narrative text students imagine what might happen next. With an informational text, students predict what they might learn or read about.
Predicting involves combining the reader’s prior knowledge, new knowledge from the text, and the text’s structure to create hypotheses related to the direction of the text and the author’s intent in writing.
Example questions for teachers:
What do you think will happen next?
What words/images do you expect to see or hear in this text?
What might happen next?
Why do you think that?
What helped you make that prediction?
Were your predictions accurate?
How did you confirm your predictions?
Have you read/seen/heard about this topic anywhere else?
Example teaching idea
Individual or small group activity:
Before and after chart: Ask students to list predictions before and during reading. As they read students either confirm or reject their predictions.