Here are 24 making predictions task cards to help your students practice making inferences. Each card features a short story and asks students to predict what will come next.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

✍️ PRINT:

• 24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)
  • Black-line
  • Color
• Recording Sheets
• Answer Keys

DIGITAL:

• Google Slides
• Easel Activity

DIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:

• Digital or Print
• Challenge Card to extend the lesson
• Multiple versions of the recording sheet included

Great for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade! 

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This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!

This bundle includes these resources:

• Main Idea Task Cards
• Theme Task Cards
• Informational Text Structure Task Cards
• Summarizing Task Cards
• Cause and Effect Task Cards
• Compare and Contrast Task Cards
• Author’s Purpose Task Cards
• Making Inferences Set 1 Task Cards
• Making Inferences Set 2 Task Cards
• Making Informational Inferences Task Cards
• Sequencing Task Cards
• Character Traits Inferencing Task Cards
• Drawing Conclusions Task Cards
• Generalizations Task Cards
• Genre Task Cards
• Making Connections Task Cards
• Point of View Set 1 Task Cards
• Point of View Set 2 Task Cards
• Questioning Task Cards
• Setting Task Cards
• Visualizing Text Task Cards

NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. 

Teacher Tip

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Here’s what teachers are saying:

✏️ "TASK CARDS! The task cards that Rachel Lynette creates are amazing! We've been using her task cards in small group for half the year. I've notice with these prediction cards that the students are enjoying finding out what predictions they classmates are having. If it has Rachel Lynette on it, it's an amazing purchase!" -Jasmine G.

✏️ "A great resource to use when targeting predictions in stories. I used this with students through school and the private clinic that I work with. It can be easily adapted to work remotely and for in-person. Looking forward to continuing to use this during the fall." -Ashley H.

✏️ "These tasks cards are a great resource. No prep, easy to use, and students love them! I love the flexibility they allow (printed option or Google Slides)." -Casey G.

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Common Core Standards:

• CCSSRL.4.1 - Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• CCSSRL.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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About the Author

Rachel Lynette is a published author of over 120 nonfiction books for children on a variety of subjects, as well as several teacher resource books. She has written for publishers such as Harcourt, Thompson-Gale, Rosen, Children’s Press, Evan-Moor, Kagan, and several others. This resource reflects more than a decade of professional writing experience.

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This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded. 

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