4(A) Predictions

Reading/Beginning Reading/Strategies. Students comprehend a variety of texts drawing on useful strategies as needed.
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4(A) predict what might happen next in the text based on the cover, title, and illustrations	4(A) confirm predictions about what will happen next in  the text by "reading the part that tells"	3(A) use ideas (e.g. illustrations, titles, topic sentence, key words, and foreshadowing) to make and confirm predictions	2(A) use ideas (e.g. illustrations, titles, topic sentences, key words, and foreshadowing clues) to make and confirm predictions
Predict what might happen next in the text based on the cover Predict what might happen next in the text based on the title Predict what might happen next in the text based on the illustrations

Activities:

• Monday--picture walk to make predictions about what will happen next in the story.  No reading of the book is done on this day.  Using only title and illustrations
• Tuesday--Review the picture walk and read to confirm or revise the predictions that were made.  Cross-check meaning (picture) with visual (word) to predict a word.  Introduce and locate sight words.  Locate unknown words using first sound.
• Wednesday--Locate and identify conventions in text.  Beginning of a sentence starts with a capital and ends with appropriate punctuation.  Match upper and lower case letters.  Use hand signals if appropriate.
• Thursday--The students read the book.  Sequence the story  using pictures from the book or puppets.
• Friday--Students are given thier own copy of the book to color and locate sight words in the book.

Anchor Activities:

• Place the book from the week in the reading center.  Students can use for familiar reading.
• Glue letters to make words from the book on a card.  Similar activity using stamps..students stamp the words then write them
• Laminated construction paper with the word.  Students will trace, make with magnetic letters, then write on thier own