Shani Snow

EDRG 4020

Mini Lesson

Predicting:

Using Past Experiences To Support Comprehension

--Utah State Core; Second Grade; Standard 1; Objective 1: Assimilate new ideas introduced through pictures and print.

--Predicting is speculating what will happen next in text and increases reading comprehension. Good readers create specific predictions when reading is built on life experiences or past reading experiences.

Steps in Teaching Prediction:

• Explaining and modeling prediction

--Predictions help bring past experiences to mind

--Prediction gives purpose to reading

--Prediction helps in thinking of all the possibilities of things that might occur

• Stopping periodically to check, change, and add predictions

--After learning about prediction, it becomes something that is done almost unconsciously

• Guiding prediction practice

--Teacher reads book aloud, guides students in making predictions, and adds predictions if necessary

• Providing Independent Practice

--Give students Post-it® tabs to write their predictions on

--One color for predictions made, a second for check stops, and a third for prediction changes

• Using predictions before, during, and after reading

--Discuss the kinds of predictions that can be made and how past experiences come into play