Strategy : Prediction

Explanation: Using students’ prior knowledge or part of the text that has already been read, students will try and guess what will happen next.

How does it look in the classroom: The predictions become hypotheses to test out in reading. With younger children you are always doing this. Sometimes you stop during the reading to revise predictions. This is a very effective reading strategy in my opinion. It can help students think in the right direction.

In the early years, prior to reading aloud, the teacher reads the title and shows the cover of a book and asks the students to say the book is about. The teacher can also stop at various parts while reading to ask again.

In the later years, the teacher could read the title of an article and ask the students to predict what the text will be about. For example, prior to reading the article, “Adopt A Salmon Turns Kids into “Parents,” Conservationist.

When? : Before

Weblink with further reading and examples:

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp047.shtml