Invite your text detectives to bring their magnifying glasses to school to examine the clues in a text and make predictions. They write down three clues and a prediction on the graphic organizer.

Concepts

making predictions, context clues, drawing conclusions, reading comprehension strategies

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Model how to complete the organizer first, leading your class through making a prediction for a story you are reading together
• Send this home with learners to use when reading independently; you can collect the organizers as a sort of reading log

Classroom Considerations

• The worksheet has three spaces exactly for clues, and sometimes there might not be exactly three clues that lead up to a prediction

Pros

• Provides two examples to show how a first grader and a fourth grader completed the graphic organizer
• Could be used with just about any text
• Includes a description of how to use the organizer

Cons

• None