We read the book, Buster, by Denise Fleming. In the book, Buster receives a box with a special suprise inside! Before we read the ending of the story to find out what was inside the box, we made predictions about what we THOUGHT might be inside the brown box. The ideas the kids came up with were GREAT! Effective readers use pictures, titles, headings, and text—as well as personal experiences—to make predictions before they begin to read. Predicting involves thinking ahead while reading and anticipating information and events in the text. After making predictions, students can read through the text and refine, revise, and verify their predictions. 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. We provide a variety of opportunities for our students to make predictions in both reading experiences and many other experiences in the classroom including science, math exploration, sensory experiences, and social interactions.
"A Dog House"
"A Dog House"
"A police dog house"
