Predicting
In this example, the teacher demonstrates, step-by-step with academic language, but making sure the students understand what to do. Each student makes their own prediction and shares them with the elbow partner. She goes around and checking in with each student to make sure they understand how to predict details in the story. The students seem very engaged, they work with others and have in completed. She talks about being specific and keeps challenging the students to reach a higher-level of thinking.
This video demonstrates a wonderful way of introducing and predicting what the book will be about, through key words! The students were very engaged and excited to find out about the book. The teacher gives students time to work on their own predictions about the book and share their thoughts.
Example questions/statements
What do I/you think will happen next?
What words/images do I/you expect to see or hear in this text?
What might happen next? Why do I/you think that? What helped me/you make that prediction?
Were my/your predictions accurate? How did I/you confirm my/your predictions?
Have I/you read/seen/heard about this topic anywhere else?
Example teaching idea
Before and after chart: Students list predictions before and during reading. As they read
students either confirm or reject their predictions.
What do I/you think will happen next?
What words/images do I/you expect to see or hear in this text?
What might happen next? Why do I/you think that? What helped me/you make that prediction?
Were my/your predictions accurate? How did I/you confirm my/your predictions?
Have I/you read/seen/heard about this topic anywhere else?
Example teaching idea
Before and after chart: Students list predictions before and during reading. As they read
students either confirm or reject their predictions.
Teaching Ideas
Partner Read and Think
Use the Partner Read and Think guide during each segment of text that is read. The steps involve placing a stop sign in the text, predicting words they think are likely to appear, reading the section, identifying words that are interesting or unknown followed by summarising the learning.
Word Predictions
After modelling this strategy students work as partners or individuals to engage in word predictions. Before reading the text, preview the text (look at pictures/illustrations) and list all words you think you will encounter and explain why. During reading, place a tally mark each time a word from your list appears. After reading, discuss why some of the words did not appear in text.
Predict-o-Gram
Select vocabulary from text to stimulate predictions. Working with partners, students decide which story element the word tells about and writes each word in the Predict-o-Gram. Introduce the story and invite students to read it.
Partner Read and Think
Use the Partner Read and Think guide during each segment of text that is read. The steps involve placing a stop sign in the text, predicting words they think are likely to appear, reading the section, identifying words that are interesting or unknown followed by summarising the learning.
Word Predictions
After modelling this strategy students work as partners or individuals to engage in word predictions. Before reading the text, preview the text (look at pictures/illustrations) and list all words you think you will encounter and explain why. During reading, place a tally mark each time a word from your list appears. After reading, discuss why some of the words did not appear in text.
Predict-o-Gram
Select vocabulary from text to stimulate predictions. Working with partners, students decide which story element the word tells about and writes each word in the Predict-o-Gram. Introduce the story and invite students to read it.
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Writing and Prediciting
This helps the writer understand the order of events and to think creatively.
Teaching Standard
2.10.4.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies. d. Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).
This helps the writer understand the order of events and to think creatively.
Teaching Standard
2.10.4.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies. d. Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).
References
Anoellife. (2011, December 27). Reading Comprehension Strategies: Questioning. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Xw9yoYCRY
Comprehension Strategies. (n.d.). Retrieved June 1, 2015.
Comprehension Strategies - Making connections, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and more. (n.d.). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/comprehension_strategies.html
English Language Arts K-12. (2011, November 29). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from file:///C:/Users/JOHNSTO/Downloads/wordELA Standards_bold version 9 18 13.pdf
How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms by Patricia J. Edelen-Smith Intervention in School and Clinic Volume 33, Number 2, pp.
103-111, Copyright by PRO-ED, Inc.
Learning the Comprehension Strategies | Scholastic.com. (n.d.). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/learning-comprehension-strategies
Miller, M. & Veatch, N. (2011). Literacy in context (LinC): Choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students in grades 5-12. Pearson.
Moore, D. (n.d.). Reading Comprehension Strategies. Best Practices in Secondary Education, 1(1), 1-4.
Pennell, D. (2002). Explicit Instruction for Implicit Meaning: Strategies for Teaching Inferential Reading Comprehension. Inferential Comprehension, 16-16.
Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read by Armbruster, Lehr, and Osborn, published in September 2001 by the Partnership for Reading.
Reading Comprehension: Strategies That Work. (2001). In Reading Comprehension: Strategies That Work (Vol. 1, pp. 421-483). Duke and Pearson.
Teaching comprehension strategies. (2010). New South Wales: NSW Department of Education and Training.
The Balanced Literacy Diet. (2011, November 28). Powerful Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy to Build Knowledge and Support Comprehension Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQYiYVf71i0
Anoellife. (2011, December 27). Reading Comprehension Strategies: Questioning. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Xw9yoYCRY
Comprehension Strategies. (n.d.). Retrieved June 1, 2015.
Comprehension Strategies - Making connections, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and more. (n.d.). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/literacy/comprehension_strategies.html
English Language Arts K-12. (2011, November 29). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from file:///C:/Users/JOHNSTO/Downloads/wordELA Standards_bold version 9 18 13.pdf
How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms by Patricia J. Edelen-Smith Intervention in School and Clinic Volume 33, Number 2, pp.
103-111, Copyright by PRO-ED, Inc.
Learning the Comprehension Strategies | Scholastic.com. (n.d.). Retrieved June 2, 2015, from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/learning-comprehension-strategies
Miller, M. & Veatch, N. (2011). Literacy in context (LinC): Choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students in grades 5-12. Pearson.
Moore, D. (n.d.). Reading Comprehension Strategies. Best Practices in Secondary Education, 1(1), 1-4.
Pennell, D. (2002). Explicit Instruction for Implicit Meaning: Strategies for Teaching Inferential Reading Comprehension. Inferential Comprehension, 16-16.
Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read by Armbruster, Lehr, and Osborn, published in September 2001 by the Partnership for Reading.
Reading Comprehension: Strategies That Work. (2001). In Reading Comprehension: Strategies That Work (Vol. 1, pp. 421-483). Duke and Pearson.
Teaching comprehension strategies. (2010). New South Wales: NSW Department of Education and Training.
The Balanced Literacy Diet. (2011, November 28). Powerful Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy to Build Knowledge and Support Comprehension Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQYiYVf71i0