1. Ms. Quinn 8th Grade Reading
Making Predictions
Ms. Quinn
8th Grade Reading

2. Essential Questions What is a prediction?
How can I make predictions while reading?
How can predicting help me understand what I read?

3. What are predictions?
Predicting is the process of combining new information (evidence) with your own knowledge and experience in order to make reasonable guesses about what will happen next.

5. What Are Predictions?
When you predict while reading, you use text clues—and your own experience—to make reasonable guesses about what will happen next.
You will need to adjust your predictions as you continue reading and get more information.

6. What Are Predictions?
Read the following examples. After each one, guess what will happen next. Does your prediction change from one example to the next?

8. Why Make Predictions?
Making and rethinking predictions can help you better understand what you are reading. It keeps you involved in the story’s conflict and characters.
These elements help you predict.
Clues in the Text
Connections
Your Experience

10. Making Predictions
The first step to making predictions about a story is to keep asking yourself: What might happen next? The second step is to gather clues from the text.
When you have connected the clues to your own experiences, you can then predict an outcome.
There are three types of clues that can help you make predictions.

11. Plot Clues

12. Character Clues

13. Setting Clues

14. Practice
What will happen next?

15. Analyzing Predictions
A good prediction must be based on clues from the text, in addition to your own experience.
When you make a prediction, go back and make sure the text supports it.

16. Analyzing Predictions
Which clue helped you make a good prediction?
He grabbed a muffin from the kitchen.
He’d have to go back.
He had to make it to the bus.
Stuffing papers into his backpack…

17. The Process of Predicting
Good readers are actively engaged—they imagine what they’re reading about and ask themselves questions about why things happen, and they predict what will happen next.

18. The Process of Predicting
Which sentences tell what you do when you predict?

19. Revisiting Your Predictions
As a story progresses and the writer provides more information, you will have to revise your predictions.

20. Let’s Practice!

23. Summary
Predicting is the process of using text clues, combined with your own experience, to make reasonable guesses about what might happen next in a story.
When making predictions, look for clues about the plot, setting, and characters.

24. Summary
As a story progresses and new information is introduced, you will often have to change your predictions.
As you read, check to see whether or not your predictions are accurate.

25. Summary
Predicting keeps you actively engaged in what you are reading because it requires close attention to the story’s conflict, events, and characters.