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

  • Use heading, subheadings, and illustrations to make a prediction about the text content.                

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

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

AHSGE Standard IV - The student will utilize strategies that enhance comprehension of textual, functional, and recreational reading material. 
 

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Alabama Lesson Plans

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Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
The acronym THIEVES helps preview texts.

The Great Gilly Hopkins-Characterization and Prediction
Using the novel The Great Gilly Hopkins for predicting and outcomes

You Know the Movie is Coming--Now What?
Students will categorize text in terms of film terminology as a means of predicting while reading

The World's Greatest Contralto Worksheet using a short story to predict

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 most accurate.
 

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