Students discuss times they predict what will happen next. They compare this to using the information given in a piece of literature to predict what will happen next in the story. Students listen as the teacher reads an excerpt from The Monkey's Paw. Students predict what they think will be happening using foreshadowing. Students discuss which parts of the story led them to make their predictions.

Concepts

author's purpose, authors, conclusions, inferences

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Additional Tags

author's purpose, conclusion, inference, predict, english language arts

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