2nd - 8th Grade Common Core Make Predictions Educational Resources

This exercise will give your students practice reading a text, making a prediction, and citing text evidence to support it. They will use introductory phrases as they complete sentence frames to create strong evidence-based sentences.

Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!

Prepare students for reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind with these research and reflection prompts!

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

Use these task cards to get your reflective readers making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

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!

This quick activity will enable your students to practice the skill of making predictions.

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7 of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder.

This template encourages thoughtful, engaged reading as children practice making predictions as they go.

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit’s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

Before reading S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, use this pre-reading activity to get readers thinking about one of the major themes in the novel: stereotypes.

Children will practice active reading with this engaging template.

Use this worksheet to encourage critical thinking and support students’ literacy development by asking questions before, during, and after reading.

Students will practice making and adjusting predictions about their texts.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

This prediction activity engages students in thinking about the skill of Ãpredictingà from a writerÃs point of view.

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

These post-reading writing prompts ask students to reflect on the major themes and events from The Giver.

Use this reading guide to encourage thoughtful discussions about the final chapters of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.

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.

Students read an excerpt adapted from L. Frank Baum’s short story “The Girl Who Owned a Bear” and answer reading comprehension questions about the text.