While your students may not be psychics, that doesn't mean they can't predict what will happen next in a story. To hone this important reading comprehension skill, young learners read a series of three short passages before writing a sentence or two describing what they think will happen next. A simple yet effective exercise for upper elementary readers.

Concepts

reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, making predictions, supporting details, supporting evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign this practice exercise as homework during a language arts lesson series on making predictions and inferences
• Have students discuss their predictions with partners or in small groups, and require them to support their ideas with evidence from the passages
• Extend learning by asking children to write their own short scenes; then, read them as a group and make predictions about what might happen next

Classroom Considerations

• An example is not provided on the worksheet, so be sure to model the thought process involved in making a prediction before having the class complete this worksheet

Pros

• Ample space is provided for children to record their responses
• Reading passages clearly lend themselves to making predictions
• An answer key is included with the worksheet

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 RL.6.1 RI.6.1