make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
A set of 10 task cards to practice making predictions.
A reading response journal for students to use to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways.
A reading response template for students to make inferences and predictions with a piece of text.
A template for students to use when making inferences.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during, and after reading.
A set of task cards to be paired with the International Women's Day comic 'Gender Ground Rules'.
A comprehension worksheet paired with a magazine article about the global seed vault.
A beautifully designed, 24-page reading magazine written specifically for Grade 4 students.
A teaching presentation outlining the similarities and differences between an inference and a prediction.
A worksheet to use when teaching your students the difference between an inference and a prediction.
A set of QR code question cubes to use when working with reading comprehension strategies.
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the classroom when introducing comprehension strategies.
A fun reading comprehension strategy activity for students to use after reading a text.
A template for students to make predictions with a piece of text.
This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.
A 60-minute lesson in which students will learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.