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Reading strategy: Predicting

Reading strategy: Predicting. Predicting. Thinking about what might happen is called making predictions. How many slides do you think you will be shown? How many times do you think the word predict will appear in this slide show?

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Reading strategy: Predicting

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  1. Reading strategy: Predicting

  2. Predicting • Thinking about what might happen is called making predictions. • How many slides do you think you will be shown? • How many times do you think the word predict will appear in this slide show? • When you make predictions you are like a detective. You use clues from the text, clues from the graphics and your own experiences to make educated guesses.

  3. 1. Get ready to make some predictions!2. Get ready to turn and share your thoughts with a partner.

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  9. Good readers predict….. • Good readers make educated guesses. They make inferences. Not wild guesses. • Good readers find evidence that may or may not support their predictions as they read. • Good readers continue to make new predictions as they read. They base their new predictions on the clues that they find.

  10. The Witches by Roald Dahl • “Miserrable vitches!” she yelled. “useless lazy vitches! Feeble frribbling vitches! You are a heap of idle good-for-nothing vurms!” A shudder went through the audience. The Grand High Witch was clearly in an ugly mood and they knew it. I had a feeling that something awful was going to happen soon. “I am having my breakfast this morning,” cried The Grand High Witch, “and I am looking out of the vindow at the beach, and vot am I seeing? I am seeing a rrreevolting sight! I am seeing hundreds, I am seeing thousands of rrrotten rrree-pulsive little children playing on the sand! It is putting me rrright off my food! “Vye have you not got rrrid of them?” she screamed. “Vye have you not rrrubbed them all out, these filthy smelly children?........... Make a prediction!

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