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A fun reading lesson that uses feathers by phil cummings and getting students  To predict words in texts using the front cover.
Reading
Grade:2-4
Lesson from Cleverbean

Prediction Mission

Learning Intention: I am learning to use comprehension strategies, such as prediction, to build literal and inferred meaning.

A fun reading lesson that uses feathers by phil cummings and getting students  To predict words in texts using the front cover.
Reading
Lesson from Cleverbean
Grade: 2-4

Prediction Mission

Learning Intention: I am learning to use comprehension strategies, such as prediction, to build literal and inferred meaning.

What you'll need

  • Whiteboards
  • Whiteboard Markers
Curriculum

Grade 3 - AC9E3LY05

Grade 2 - AC9E2LY04

Success criteria

  • I can make predictions about a text by drawing upon my own knowledge of the topic.
  • I can use subject specific vocabulary when making predictions about a text.
Lesson

Modelled

  1. Introduce the lesson by discussing how skilled readers use prediction to anticipate the events, ideas and vocabulary that may arise in a text. They do this by combining their own knowledge of the topic, with clues that the author and illustrator provide.

  2. Explain that prediction begins the minute we pick up a book, and for great readers it continues as they read the text.

Guided

  1. Show students the front cover of a selected book and share the title with them. As a class dissect the title and the cover illustration, exploring possible meanings and storylines the text could take.

  2. Provide students with a whiteboard and whiteboard marker.

  3. Ensure the front cover of the book is on display for everyone to see. Tell students that they will have two minutes to predict as many words as possible that they think will appear in the book. Tell students that the words recorded need to be subject-specific to the topic of the book. For example if reading ‘Feathers’ students may record drift, float, fluffy, birds etc.

  4. After they have jotted their ideas down, ask a selection of students to share some different predicted words.

  5. Read the text to the class. As you are reading, ask students to tick off any words they hear from the text that was on their list.

Independent

  1. At the end of the book, students will review their list of predicted words and will answer the following questions on their whiteboard.
    a. How many words did you correctly predict?
    b. What word were you surprised didn’t appear in the text?
    c. What new words did you learn from the text?

  2. Students will discuss their answers with a partner.

Differentiation

  • Support: Students can use examples off the board and would benefit with a partner brainstorm.
  • Extension: Record down other words associated with the title and ask students to use the collected words to write a descriptive passage.
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Assessment

  • Can students predict words that connect to the title of a book?
Mid Way Check In

  • To encourage students to be continually predicting during the reading process, stop half way through the text and repeat the activity. This will allow students to revise their words, adding and deleting as needed, based upon their new knowledge of the text style and structure.