Making and Confirming Predictions

Match

Complete the question by matching the correct meaning to each vocabulary word.

• to establish validity; to verify, to prove

• a quality that defines certain types of writing

• a logical guess about what future events might happen in a story, what information a text might provide, or what points an author might make in an argument

• a part of the text that is not the main body of the text, such as the table of contents, a header, or a visual element (such as a picture, a map, a chart, or a diagram)

confirm

genre characteristic

prediction

text feature

• confirm

• genre characteristic

• prediction

• text feature

Multiple Choice

What can we use to help make predictions?

• pictures, diagrams, or charts

• section headings, or bold/highlighted words

• The title, author, or summary

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

How can we make quality, high-level predictions?

• use prior knowledge or evidence to support predictions

• skip ahead in the text to find out what happens first

• make short-term predictions to quickly determine if they come true

Multiple Choice

When should we make predictions?

• If we already know a lot about a subject.

• Only before we start reading for the very first time.

• Every time we read, and before, during, and after our reading.

Match

Match the correct prediction that could be made based on the textual evidence given in each example.

• The monitor lady smiled very nicely and tousled his hair and said, “Andrew, I
  suppose by now you’re just absolutely sick of having that horrid monitor. Well,
  I have good news for you. That monitor is going to come out today. We’re going
  to take it right out, and it won’t hurt a bit.”

• No, Peter was too dangerous. Peter got so angry. Brothers, though. Not enemies, not
  friends, but brothers—able to live in the same house. He won’t hate me, he’ll
  just leave me alone. And when he wants to play buggers and astronauts, maybe I
  won’t have to play, maybe I can just go read a book.

• The doctor was twisting something at the back of Ender's head. Suddenly a pain
  stabbed through him like a needle from his neck to his groin. Ender felt his
  back spasm, and his body arched violently backward; his head struck the bed. He
  could feel his legs thrashing, and his hands were clenching each other,
  wringing each other so tightly that they arched.

• The doctor was trembling; his voice shook as he spoke. “They leave these things in the kids for three years, what do they expect? We
  could have switched him off, do you realize that? We could have unplugged his
  brain for all time.”

Removing the monitor will hurt Ender

Peter and Ender will still have problems

The removal will cause permanent damage

The government can control people

• Removing the monitor will hurt Ender

• Peter and Ender will still have problems

• The removal will cause permanent damage

• The government can control people