Make+and+Refine+Predictions


 * Predicting** occurs when students discuss what will happen next in the text. In order to do this successfully, students must use their background knowledge that they already have regarding the topic. The student's purpose for reading is to prove or disporve their prediction. Furthermore, the opportunity has been created for the students to link the new knowledge they will encounter in the text with the knowledge they already have. The predicting strategy also helps the use of text structure as students learn that headings, subheadings, and questions imbedded in the text are useful means of determining what might happen next. Have the students write down clues as to why the predict what they are predicting. Students can share their predictions before and after reading. Once the students are finished reading, they refer back to their predictions and compare and contrast. What happened that was different regarding the events and characters and what was the same.