Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
2.3.A*
use ideas (e.g., illustrations, titles, topic sentences, key words, and foreshadowing) to make and confirm predictions
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
2.6.c
make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
2nd Grade Reading - Making Predictions Lesson
Making Predictions
Making predictions is trying to guess what the passage is going to be about. In other words, it is trying to imagine what the passage would say if it continued.
Think about the following to make the right predictions:
Title: Does the title tell more about the story or the character(s)?
Key Words: Are there important words in the passage?
Clues in the passage: What details in the passage tell you what might happen next?
Photographs or illustrations: What is the picture about? What does it tell about the story/passage?