1. Making Predictions
Academic Habits

2. A good guess about something that will happen later
Based partly on information you already know from your own experience
Based partly on clues from the text that help you make the prediction
What is a Prediction?

3. How Do You Make a Prediction?
Thinking about the title
Think about what you read in the passage. Pay extra attention to the last sentence of the passage.
Read the title and the whole passage again. Think about what you already know about the topic.
How Do You Make a Prediction?

4. Use Clues to Help You Make Predictions
You can find clues …
in the title
in the details of the passage
Things characters do and say might help you predict what they will do or say in the future
in pictures included with story
Use Clues to Help You Make Predictions

5. Clues from Text + What You Already Know/Experience = Good Prediction
Remember the Equation

6. Effective Readers Ask Themselves Questions as They Read
“What do I already know about the things I am reading about?”
“What have I learned from my own experience?”
“What clues in the title, passage, and pictures help me make a prediction?”
Effective Readers Ask Themselves Questions as They Read