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Strategies for Predicting in Reading

Predicting involves using information from prior knowledge, titles, illustrations, and parts of the text read so far to make informed guesses about what will happen in the text. Predicting helps activate background knowledge and sets a purpose for reading. Making predictions before and during reading encourages active reading and keeps readers engaged, which supports comprehension. Predictions should be based on clues from the text and prior knowledge, and readers should adjust predictions as new information is learned.

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Strategies for Predicting in Reading

Predicting involves using information from prior knowledge, titles, illustrations, and parts of the text read so far to make informed guesses about what will happen in the text. Predicting helps activate background knowledge and sets a purpose for reading. Making predictions before and during reading encourages active reading and keeps readers engaged, which supports comprehension. Predictions should be based on clues from the text and prior knowledge, and readers should adjust predictions as new information is learned.

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Predicting

Predicting is when information is used to make informed guesses about what


is happening or going to happen in a text. Information can come from prior
knowledge, the title, blurb, author, text type, plot, illustrations and what has
been read so far.

How does predicting support reading and comprehension?

Predicting helps readers to activate their prior knowledge about a topic, so they begin
to combine what they know with the new material in the text.

Predicting also helps to set a purpose for reading.

Making predictions before and during reading, and then confirming or revising them
throughout the reading process encourages students to become active readers who
have expectations of the text.
This also keeps them actively engaged in the reading process, which is crucial for
comprehension.

the Language of predicting


I wonder if_____. I predict _____ will happen I think the text will be This picture makes me
next. about ___ because___. think that _____.

Because of _____, I I changed my first prediction


I thought ____ but then I because it said in the From what I have read so
read that ___ so I think ___. think_____. text_____. far, I predict that _____.

From what I already know I know _____, so I The style of the author My prediction was confirmed
about ____, I predict___. think_____. is_____, so I think_____. in the text because _____.

My prediction was partly I assumed _____


right but _____. but _____.

Students should be supported


to use information (clues) During
from the text and their reading,
Tips to own prior knowledge students
should be
to make predictions
support before and able to adjust
and refine earlier
during predictions as new
predicting: reading. information is gathered
and new connections are
made and they should be able
to justify the source of
their predictions.

Adapted from Zimmermann, S. (2003); Hoyt, L. (2008); Cameron, S. (2009) and First Steps Reading resource book
(2013).
Strategies
Graphic Organisers
Make a prediction and then identify the clues that were gathered throughout the reading that led to that
prediction. When the clues are added together they should lead to the prediction.

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Prediction Clue Clue

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Prediction Background Knowledge Clue

= + +
Prediction Clue Clue Clue

Walk-through, read
Graphic Organisers and check
Use the following graphic organiser with all three
excerpts (illustration, sentence, key words) or see one “Walk through” the text and attend to
‘clue’ at a time, adding to, confirming, rejecting or features such as heading, subheadings,
changing the prediction in the light of new information. captions, pictures, speech bubbles and
diagrams. During reading, or at the end of
reading, discuss what was predicted and
Title what they found.
Look at the illustration Prediction:
My Why I Was I Why?
prediction made my correct?
prediction

I predict Because... Yes/No Because...

Look at the sentence Prediction:

Predicting from one


page to the next
Look at these three words Prediction: At the end of each page/paragraph, respond to
the following questions:

What will the author


use the next What evidence
page / do you have to
paragraph predict this?
to tell us?
Why do you
predict this?

Adapted from Zimmermann, S. (2003); Hoyt, L. (2008); Cameron, S. (2009) and First Steps Reading resource book
(2013).

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