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Lesson Plan
Lesson Title Reading superpower: Predicting

Lesson # 27 8:45-9:15am Making Predictions

Objective Students will be able to understand the predicting reading strategy

Students will make predictions about a text using context clues

Lesson Inferring- to use text clues and schema to figure out what the author is trying
Vocabulary to say
Predicting- When I read, I make a guess about what will happen next based on
text clues

Resources How to make predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k09Q8A6Bxco

For extra support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__HGV69ndtw

Materials Students Need: Seating: on the rug in rows

Needed -clipboard Partners: turn and talk partners
-pencil Grouping:

Teacher needs
● White board and dry erase
markers
● TV and projector
● Predicting poster
● Prediction worksheets

Mini-Lesson

Connection ● Gather students on the carpet

● Yesterday, you all made inferences about Library Mouse to deepen your
understanding of the text EVEN MORE.
● Today, we're going to strengthen our next superpower -making
predictions!
● Ask students for their ideas on what predictions are

Teach (I Do) ● Reveal the predicting poster and define it

○ "To make a prediction, we use clues to help us guess what will
happen next. There are 3 types of clues we can use:
■ Our schema (life experiences)
■ Details from the text (from the pictures, title, and
 words in the story)
■ Character traits (character behavior)
● Connect making predictions to inferencing
○ "Wait a minute, to make a prediction, I can use text clues and
my schema?? That sounds a lot like inferencing, because it is!
You can use your inferencing superpower to make a prediction"
● State that predictions can change over time and they don't have to be
right. BUT predictions have to make sense!
● Model making a prediction that does make sense and one that doesn't
by showing a picture of a cloudy sky

○ Ex:
■ Makes sense: it's going to rain
■ A pig will fly across the sky
● "Let's watch a video to practice making predictions"

Guided ● Show the video about making predictions

Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k09Q8A6Bxco
(We Do) ● Stop the video at the parts where it asks students to make a
prediction and collect student responses
○ Have students to explain the clues they used to make the
prediction

Independent ● Hand students the making predictions worksheets and instruct them to
Practice read the passage and make a prediction about what will happen next by
(You Do) using clues
IW ○ Students work for 10 minutes
● Close the lesson by having students share their predictions and the
clues they used to make them
● End the discussion by going over the objective

Differentiation ● Level 2 and 3 ELLs will have 2 ELL:

prediction worksheets with
easily decodable texts
● Everyone else will have to
make predictions for 4 different
passages
-Display the predicting poster and
vocabulary
-Use sentence starter "I predict" when
making predictions
-visuals to support predictions
 ● For those that need extra
support, show this additional
video on making predictions:
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=__HGV69ndtw
Extension:
-students will defend their predictions
with a partner using text clues
-students will act out scenarios to
predict what will happen next

Assessment ● Students will make predictions using text clues from the video, and
support their predictions by identifying the clues they used
● Students will complete a worksheet that asks them to read a passage
and make predictions about them

Technology TV and projector