Lesson Plan
Predict It
Engage students in reading grade-level texts by making and testing predictions. Your students will be excited to read on to find out if their predictions are correct!
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to make predictions about a fiction text.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Ask: “What do you think will happen when you go home today?” Call on a few students to share their ideas.
- Say: “You just made predictions! Predictions are what you think will happen.”
Beginning:
- Activate background knowledge by talking about what students did when they went home yesterday.
- Have students rephrase what a prediction is in their own words (either in English or their home language).
Intermediate:
- Model how to make a prediction about what you will do when you get home.
- Have students share with a partner about what a prediction is.