Learning Intention: Can make predictions before reading, based on my connections and ideas about a character.
Learning Intention: Can make predictions before reading, based on my connections and ideas about a character.
Introduce the lesson by discussing the concept of predictions. Remind students that readers can make predictions before, during or after reading.
Tell students that they will be making predictions before reading a text using one of the main characters. Tell students that they will be using prior knowledge to make a prediction about one of the characters.
Show students a picture from the selected text eg. the dragon from the book ‘Boy’. Refrain from sharing any other information about the text or character.
Ask students to turn to a buddy and think, pair and share: What can you predict about the main character? I wonder what the main character will do? Where will they live? I wonder what their back story is?
As a class, create and draw a setting for where they think the dragon might live. Label the picture with students. Eg. a cave, forest, volcano
Give each student a blank picture of the dragon on a plain background and ask them to predict and draw a picture of where they think the story takes place.
After students have finished, reflect as a class on the students work by asking them to share their drawings. Discuss all the possible scenarios that students predicted where the dragon might live in the story.
Read the text to students.
Ask students to reflect and discuss their predictions.
Eg: Were your predictions accurate?
What was different between your predictions and the text?
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