• Preview text features to make a prediction about the text content.

  • Use heading, subheadings, and illustrations

  • Use captions, topic sentences, book jackets and introductory paragraphs to make a prediction about the text content (checklist)

  • Use graphic displays such as charts, maps, graphs, and timelines to make a prediction about the text content

The Scarlet Letter
During this one-class-period lesson focusing on Pearl, students write facts they know about the character from their reading the novel

Cemetery Path
Students will read and predict what happens next. Students are to use their reasoning skills and imagination to predict the story's outcome.

Fiction Book Awakenings
This is a lesson that promotes vocabulary building usage, critical thinking, predicting consequences, and drawing conclusions, with a focus on writing.

Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
Students will predict plot through the analysis of a book cover while understanding the meaning and use of allusion.
 

Suggestions for English Language Learners:                   

ESL Ideas      (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B) Working from a list or example and with a  peer, students label the parts of an article or textbook chapter, such as headings, subheading, picture, chart, map, caption, paragraph, etc. 
(I, T) Students utilize previewing strategies before reading a magazine article such as reading the first and last paragraph and then predicting the subject of the article.
(I, T) During a read-aloud exercise, students write what they believe will happen next, then share their answers with the class at the end of the exercise to find who was most accurate.
 

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