Making Predictions

Making Predictions

This week, I had the opportunity to go into two first grade classrooms and co-teach with our EL teacher. Our lesson focus was on making predictions before, during, and after reading. Before the lesson was taught to both classses, Mrs. Hildreth, Mrs. McIntire, Mrs. Murphy, and myself collaborated by email for specifics regarding the lesson. I started the lesson using an anchor chart and defining what a prediction was and when and how readers make predictions. Mrs. Hildreth jumped in and introduced the sentence stem that ALL readers can use when making a prediction. The sentence stem we used today was, "I predict that ______, because _____." 

Mrs. Hildreth had the students practice repeating the sentence stem before the students tried it on their own. Before practicing it during reading, we practiced making predictions using pictures. Mrs. Hildreth and myself modeled how we "turn and talk" and using the sentence stems. Then the students were given the opportunity to turn and talk with their partners using the pictures. We would then have students share out, using the sentence stems to answer. 

The final part of the lesson focused on making predictions as we read. We used the book, "Duck on a Bike". We made predictions before we read, during the reading, and after. We talked about if we could verify our prediction or if our prediction was left unanswered! 

                                              

Prediction Pictures to Introduce Lesson