teaching resource

Making Predictions from Sentences Worksheets

Updated: 13 Feb 2025

Practise making predictions with sentences using this set of making predictions worksheets.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 3 Pages
Years: 3 - 4

Curriculum

VC2E3LY10

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to analyse texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making predictions about a text, drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic</li> <li>identifying important ideas, events or details in texts</li> <li>learning new content from reading and listening, and asking questions to expand understanding</li> <li>comparing and contrasting how different texts present similar ideas or information</li> <li>drawing inferences, using evidence from the text and prior knowledge and experience; for example, making predictions about a character's likely actions or about the content of tabbed pages on a website</li> <li>determining the relevance of a text for a particular task</li> </ul>
VC2E4LY09

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and begin to evaluate texts to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making connections between information in print, images and sound</li> <li>reading or listening for key topic-specific vocabulary words to build understanding</li> <li>reading or listening to interpret the main idea and supporting ideas</li> <li>identifying evidence and reasoning used by authors to support points or arguments</li> <li>applying self-monitoring strategies such as re-reading, pausing and questioning, and self-correction strategies such as confirming and cross-checking</li> <li>connecting the use of colours, images, symbols and patterns in texts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and illustrators</li> <li>evaluating an author’s use of evidence to support arguments</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Making Predictions from Sentences Worksheets

Updated: 13 Feb 2025

Practise making predictions with sentences using this set of making predictions worksheets.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 3 Pages
Years: 3 - 4

Practise making predictions with sentences using this set of making predictions worksheets.

Making Predictions from Sentences Worksheets – Strengthen Reading Comprehension

Engage students in critical thinking with the Making Predictions from Sentences Worksheets, a targeted resource designed to help young readers anticipate what happens next based on sentence clues.

These worksheets provide structured practicing predictions activities that build inference skills and deepen reading comprehension.

Why Practicing Predictions Activities Are Important

Making predictions is a key reading strategy that helps students engage with texts more actively. When students predict what will happen next, they learn to:

Use context clues to anticipate logical outcomes.
Strengthen comprehension by thinking ahead.
Develop reasoning skills by justifying their predictions.

These worksheets provide a simple, structured way to practise making predictions from sentences, helping students become more confident and thoughtful readers.

Ways to Use These Making Predictions Worksheets in Your Classroom

Use these worksheets during guided reading to reinforce prediction skills.
Assign worksheets as part of literacy centers or morning work.
Read a sentence aloud and have students justify their predictions.
Evaluate students’ ability to make logical predictions and support their thinking with evidence.

Download the Making Predictions from Sentences Worksheets Today!

Give your students the tools they need to practise making predictions from sentences and strengthen their reading comprehension.

With these engaging worksheets, students will build confidence in practicing predictions activities while becoming more strategic readers. Use the dropdown menu to choose between the easy to print PDF version of this resource or the editable Google Slide version.

Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher and a Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.

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Curriculum

VC2E3LY10

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to analyse texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making predictions about a text, drawing on knowledge of the topic, subject-specific vocabulary and experience of texts on the same topic</li> <li>identifying important ideas, events or details in texts</li> <li>learning new content from reading and listening, and asking questions to expand understanding</li> <li>comparing and contrasting how different texts present similar ideas or information</li> <li>drawing inferences, using evidence from the text and prior knowledge and experience; for example, making predictions about a character's likely actions or about the content of tabbed pages on a website</li> <li>determining the relevance of a text for a particular task</li> </ul>
VC2E4LY09

Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and begin to evaluate texts to build literal and inferred meanings <ul> <li>making connections between information in print, images and sound</li> <li>reading or listening for key topic-specific vocabulary words to build understanding</li> <li>reading or listening to interpret the main idea and supporting ideas</li> <li>identifying evidence and reasoning used by authors to support points or arguments</li> <li>applying self-monitoring strategies such as re-reading, pausing and questioning, and self-correction strategies such as confirming and cross-checking</li> <li>connecting the use of colours, images, symbols and patterns in texts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and illustrators</li> <li>evaluating an author’s use of evidence to support arguments</li> </ul>

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