Reading Strategy 1 Predictions Making predictions is essential

Reading Strategy 1 Predictions

Making predictions is essential for the following reasons: • It helps to stimulate your imagination, which is an important part of reading. • It helps to stimulate your thinking skills, which is important for engagement. • It helps to have a purpose in reading (check whether your predictions are right or wrong). • It helps you monitor and think about what you are reading and be critical about what you are reading. • It helps you with focus, connect what you are reading to what you learned in the past, think ahead anticipate what comes next. • Remember: Good readers make predictions! They make, monitor, change predictions if necessary, and in the end, they confirm their predictions.

Make predictions • Before Reading: üLook at the title, pictures, graphs, etc. • While Reading: üCheck your previous predictions üMake new predictions (Taking into account the information you are reading)

Example Today we will read a text called “My last holiday” Activity: Write down 3 predictions Example of questions to make predicitons • • What do you think the text will be about? Do you think it was a good or a bad experience? Do you think this happened recently or a long time ago? Where do you think this holiday took place? Continent- Country- City • As you read, check your pedictions and create new ones if necessary.