1st and 2nd Grade Make Predictions Worksheets

Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.

With this Have Fun Reading Choice Board, budding bookworms can choose from a variety of engaging reading-based activities, from reading in a cozy blanket fort to drawing or acting out their favorite part of a story.

After reading a short text, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

What happens next? In this worksheet, learners will read a short fictional passage, then write and draw what they think will happen next.

Use this simple and effective graphic organizer to have students predict or describe events from their own lives or from stories.

Use the exercises on this sheet to teach and practice the skill of making predictions.

Are some predictions better than others? In this worksheet, students identify the event most likely to happen and use details from the story to explain their thinking.

This worksheet guides second graders in previewing a text using the title, table of contents, and graphics.

Help your second graders practice their prediction and summarizing skills.

Bring your predictions to life in this fun activity! Students will make predictions about a book and then act out what they think will happen in the beginning, middle, and end.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Predictions.

Not all predictions are created equal. In this worksheet, students seek to identify the events that are most likely to happen while explaining their thinking.

After reading a short text about a new puppy, students gain practice making predictions about what will happen next.

Use this short fictional story about the ugly duckling’s new friend to help your ELs make predictions, summarize text, and recognize the importance of transitional phrases!

It’s time to put your prediction power to work! However, no one prediction is guaranteed to be correct. In this worksheet, students come up with three possible things that might happen in the book they select.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Reading Pictures.

Children will select a chapter book, then make predictions as they progress through the story, in this reading comprehension template.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Making Predictions.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Details and Asking for Answers.

Engage kids in reading before they even start! This fun worksheet encourages students to make predictions about what books will be about just by glancing at the cover and contents.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

This open-ended worksheet helps second graders form predictions about books before they read them.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Predictions and Summarizing.

Enjoy a chilly day with a pair of animal friends in this reading comprehension passage!