lesson 3

LEARNING INTENTION: WALT make predictions before reading. 

Success Criteria: 

• I can activate my prior knowledge. 

• I can use evidence from the text e.g. Title, front cover 

• I can record my prediction and include EVIDENCE to support my predictions. 

Why is Prediction Important?

Prediction can keep us engaged in the story and helps us to make connections between our prior knowledge and the text. 

Predicting ensures that we can understand what we are reading as we try and make logical and reasonable assumptions about what could happen next. 

Have class discussion on what we do as readers when we make predictions?

Create an anchor chart

Warm Up: Share all your prior knowledge about Minecraft.

Do you need to have prior knowledge about Minecraft to enjoy the recent Minecraft movie?

Yes or No?

If yes why?

If no discuss reasons why?

Does it help to understand something if you can make connections?

Explicit teaching

Book suggestion:

https://youtu.be/2qwu0GxdmPI

'The Three Questions' read by Meryl Streep

Before watching the start of the story, have class discussion:

What does it mean to predict?

Why do we make predictions when reading? 

What kind of information do we use to help us make predictions?

What does it mean to provide evidence to support our predictions? 

Show students the Title: 

The Three questions

Ask what they think the questions could be?

It says the story is based on a book by Leo Tolstoy?

Have they heard of author?

When a story is based on a story what does this mean?

Can they think of stories that have been retold, fairy tales?

Why do stories get retold?

Student task

In readers notebook make a prediction on what you think will happen in the text. Make sure to model including evidence. 

I predict that... 

I think the questions will be:

1)

2)

3)

I think the story will have these types of questions, because…..

Create predicting anchor chart if there is not already one in the room. 

Part B

Students to make predictions using their own text before reading.

In readers notebook,

They write predictions based on title,

Author:

Genre:

How did activating prior knowledge help engage you as a reader with the non fiction text?

Discuss the benefits of activating prior knowledge with class