Do your students need more practice making predictions when they read both fiction and non-fiction texts? Build their reading comprehension skills in using picture evidence and prior knowledge to predict outcomes with this bundle of task cards and full page picture cards!

What's included in this making predictions bundle?

* 50 full page picture cards with guiding questions to encourage your students to use picture evidence and their own prior knowledge to make a reasonable prediction. The photos and illustrations are relevant to the experiences of elementary school-aged children, and will help your students master the skill of making predictions before they apply the predicting strategy in text reading.

* The same 50 cards with the same guiding questions in task card format, printing at four per page, plus ten bonus task cards!

* A one page teaching chart for introducing or reviewing the skill of predicting outcomes

* Three printable blackline pages for practice or assessment

* An exclusive Bundle Bonus - a set of pictures for teaching the comprehension skill of comparing and contrasting!

You'll find reading comprehension vocabulary in this set like predict, prediction, evidence, schema, and prior knowledge. Repeated exposure to these terms will make it easy to have them become part of your students' working vocabulary!

How can you use these resources to help your students become experts at making predictions?

* Use the teaching chart to introduce making predictions to your class. Also useful for small groups and remediation.

* Display a full page poster on your interactive board and "think aloud" to model how you would predict the outcome. Do the same with another card and have your students think about or write a prediction. This is a great moment to have a turn and talk, with each of your students sharing predictions with another student.

* Put six task cards on a ring in a literacy center. Have your students choose one to write about when they visit the center. This set of task cards will supply you with 10 weeks of no prep literacy center activities!

* Literacy intervention teachers, discuss a card and review making predictions once a week for spiral review that will keep your students' skills sharp!

* Use the blackline pages for independent practice or for assessment.

Here's what teachers like you have said about these making predictions activities!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lai Fan said, "Thanks for the amazing work! I found it very helpful to teach my students will real pictures and abundant practice opportunities!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Arlene said, "I really enjoyed this packet. It had excellent choices of pictures that were clear. The children are also making inferences with the cards. These are way better than some of the cards I have seen. So thank you!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Inspire Readers said, "These are GREAT thanks. Really good for oral language, vocabulary and science knowledge development, thank you."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bernadette said, "Lots of great photos. This purchase was a great timesaver when planning my Making Predictions unit."

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Thank you for your interest in this set!

You'll also like this resource for comprehension:

Compare and Contrast: 45 Picture Sets and Graphic Organizers

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