predicting

the main purpose

of a text
What is predicting?
Predicting is an important reading strategy.
It allows students to use information from
the text, such as titles, headings, pictures
and diagrams to anticipate what will
happen in the story. When making
predictions, students envision what will
come next in the text, based on their prior
knowledge.
How does predicting help?

• Predicting helps you set a purpose for reading and

anticipate what you will read.
• Making and reviewing predictions helps you
interact with the text.
•Predictions help connect your prior knowledge
with the information being learned.
How to Make Predictions?

The best way to encourage readers to make

logical predictions is by prompting them to
look at what has already happened in the
text. This will help them to extract what the
characters may have hinted is coming up or
what may have been implied by the
author's use of language.
 Before Reading
Look at the title and the pictures to help

When can I
you make predictions.

make a During Reading

prediction? Stop every few pages to make a prediction

about what will happen next.

After Reading

Think: Did I make accurate predictions? What clues

helped me predict what would happen next?
There are several different kinds of predictions
that a reader can make with a text. Readers can:

• predict what the book •predict why an author

will be about included a specific text feature

•predict what they will learn

•predict the author’s from the text or section
purpose within a text

•predict future events in •predict what would happen

next at the end of the book if
the book
it were to continue
 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE TEACHING THE
PREDICTING READING STRATEGY:

Predicting requires the reader to do two things:

1) use clues the author provides in the text

2) use what he/she knows from personal
experience or knowledge (schema).

When readers combine these two things, they

can make relevant, logical predictions.
 Why is Predicting important?
Making predictions activates students' prior knowledge about the text and
helps them make connections between new information and what they already
know.
By making predictions about the text before, during, and after reading, students
use what they already know-as well as what they suppose might happen-to
make connections to the text.
For doing so, researchers have found that teaching reading should include
explicit instruction on strategies used to comprehend text. These strategies
include summarizing the main idea, predicting events or information to which
the text is leading, drawing inferences, and monitoring for misunderstandings.
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