Preview the selection by reading the Prereading page carefully, thinking about the title, and looking at illustrations and photographs throughout the selection. Think about what the story may be about. Who are the characters? What is the setting? What is the conflict or problem? Write down your preliminary predictions before you begin reading.
1. Listen as your teacher reads the beginning of the story aloud. When your teacher stops reading, either adjust your preliminary predictions as necessary based on the new information, or make a new prediction. Each time you make a prediction, write it down. Then write the page number and column where you stopped after making the prediction.
2. As you read the rest of the story on your own, keep adjusting your predictions and making new ones.
If you are having trouble making predictions, try answering the Guided Reading Questions. These questions will help you identify some of the key ideas or events in the story. Focusing on these ideas or events may help you predict what will happen.
Go through your list of predictions. Put a star next to every prediction that you were right about. Put a check next to every prediction where you changed your ideas from a previous prediction. Share your predictions with a partner. Talk about what clues in the story led you to make the predictions.