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The document provides a lesson plan for teaching 1st grade students to make predictions about a story. The teacher will read parts of the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble aloud, stopping periodically to model making predictions based on clues from the text and illustrations. Students will then practice making their own predictions by discussing them with a partner. They will compare their predictions to the actual story events. Finally, students will independently predict how the story might end and discuss how their predictions matched the real ending.

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Prediction Mini

The document provides a lesson plan for teaching 1st grade students to make predictions about a story. The teacher will read parts of the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble aloud, stopping periodically to model making predictions based on clues from the text and illustrations. Students will then practice making their own predictions by discussing them with a partner. They will compare their predictions to the actual story events. Finally, students will independently predict how the story might end and discuss how their predictions matched the real ending.

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Prediction Minilesson

Name: Josie Lutton


Grade Level: 1st
Content: Communication Arts
Lesson: Use of predicting to help comprehension

Content Objective(s):
After reading part of the book, students will be able to make a prediction using
information from the text by writing their own ending to the story.

GLE: R1G1c
During reading and read-alouds, develop and utilize, with assistance, strategies to
predict and check using cueing systems: meaning, structure, and visual information.

Modifications:

Materials/Media/Resources:
Steig, W. (1969). Sylvester and the magic pebble. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Anticipatory Set: Has anyone ever made a wish? What have you wished for?
Did it come true? Today we are going to read a story called Sylvester and the
Magic Pebble.

Instructional Input: Today we are going to be talking about making predictions.


A prediction is a thoughtful “guess” based on what you’ve read up to that point.
We will use the words and the pictures to help us make a thoughtful guess about
what is going to happen next in the story. Predictions are important because
they make you want to keep reading. After you guess what is going to happen
next, you want to read and find out if your prediction was correct.

Modeling/Demonstrating: Begin reading the story to the class, stopping after


the first page. After reading this much of the story, we know that Sylvester likes
and collects pebbles. I do not know what is going to happen next, but knowing
that he like pebbles, I might predict that Sylvester will find a pebble. I ask myself,
is that a good prediction, does it make sense with what I have read so far? Yes,
it does because Sylvester collects pebbles, so it is possible that he will look for
them and find one. Write my prediction on the board in sentence form. Write, I
predict that Sylvester will find a pebble, because he collects pebbles. Keep
reading until page 2. My prediction was correct, he did find a pebble. Continue
reading through page 3. Can we predict why the rain stopped so suddenly? The
rain might have stopped because the sun came out. I ask myself, is that a good
prediction? Does my prediction make sense with what I have read so far or the
pictures on the pages? Yes, the picture shows a bright, shining sun, so it is
possible that the sun made the rain cease. Write my prediction on the board in
sentence form using the same format. (I predict that…….because ………) I
predict that the rain stopped suddenly, because the sun came out.
Guided Practice:
Read to page 5 where he decides to go home and show his parents. Make a
prediction about what will happen next in the story? Write your prediction in the
format that I showed you. Share your predictions with your shoulder partner.
Make sure that your partner’s prediction makes sense with the story. Walk
around while reading and listening to the students predictions. Choose a student
to share their prediction with the class. Will you share your prediction with the
class? “I predict that when he goes home his parents won’t believe him, so he
will make it rain and stop raining, because he has worried that they won’t believe
him and he already knows the weather is one thing that he can change.” That is
a very possible prediction. Continue reading the story. Stop after page 7 when
Sylvester turned himself into a rock. Make a prediction about what will happen
next in the story. Write your prediction and share it with your partner. Walk
around, listening and checking every students predictions. Model an appropriate
prediction for the class by having a student share theirs. “I predict that the lion
will take the pebble because now he knows that it is magic.” That is a very
possible prediction. The lion watched the donkey wish himself into the rock when
he was holding the pebble, so he might take the pebble for himself.

Checking for Understanding:


I will listen and watch closely as students write and talk about their predictions
with their partners. They should be able to form a prediction that makes sense
with the story and write it using the form I supplied. They must be able to back
up their prediction using the cueing systems: meaning, structure, and visual
information.

Independent Practice:
Continue reading and stop after page 25 when Sylvester’s parents decide to go
on a picnic and sit on Sylvester. Make a prediction about how the story will end.
What will happen next? Use the this sentence: I predict_______
because_______. Finish reading the end of the story. Discuss how the real
ending compared with the students predicted endings. How did your ending
compare with the real ending? Was it confirmed or unconfirmed?

Closure:
Today we learned how to make predictions in a story, based on what we have
already read and the illustrations. Then, we compared our predictions with the
real text. Making predictions is a very important reading skill that helps us use
the text we have already read to think about what is going to happen next.
Making predictions causes us, as readers, to want to finish reading the story, so
we can compare and contrast our predictions with the real situations in the book.

Evaluation/Assessment:
Student’s endings to the story will be graded using a rubric to see if their
predictions were possible.

Students will visualize, clarify, and make educated predictions based on passage

Making Predictions
Basic Proficient Advanced
1 pts 2 pts 3 pts
Clarifying Basic Proficient Advanced
Able to make a clear Is not able to give a Is able to give a Is able to give a clear
prediction of what clear prediction of prediction of what and well-written
will happen next in what will happen next will happen next in prediction of what
the story. in the text. the text. will happen next in
the text.
Prediction Basic Proficient Advanced
Can make a Student did not make a Prediction is Prediction is
prediction based on prediction or acceptable, but there acceptable and based
details from the prediction was not are not details from on details from the
passage based on details from the passage to passage. Prediction is
the passage. The support the based on characters
prediction is off topic. prediction. motivation and/or
characters history.

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