First grade students in 1A have been busy this week learning about making predictions. Making predictions is an important skill for first graders to have command over as we begin Guided Reading groups. To lead meaningful discussions in reading groups, students are often asked to make a prediction about what might happen next, as well as provide evidence to support their prediction.
We used the book The Napping House to make page by page predictions as a group. Students generated many possible predictions for each page of the story and I recorded them on chart paper. Next, students chose three different pages in the book to record a prediction, the clue that helped them make that prediction, and a confirmation of weather or not their prediction was correct. It is was not correct, students were asked to record what actually occurred in the story.
Check out these great examples of student work!
