Predicting Using Clues from Text and Illustrations

To use clues in text to decide what the text will be about, or what will happen next

• predict

• main idea

• evaluate

• infer

To find a word that’s new & predict the meaning of the word using clues from the words around it

• questioning

• visualizing

• contextual clues

• process of elimination

When you use evidence to make a guess, you are using the reading strategy called ____.

• Connect

• Visualize

• Clarify

• Infer

An inference is...

• Text evidence + prior knowledge

• Retelling a text

• Making a guess without evidence

• Information written directly into the text.

Even though she was very conscientious, Kaylin was tired of having homework every single evening in her advanced classes. Since it was all due at the end of the week, she decided to do a little experiment and wait to do all of her work on Thursday nights. Working several hours all at once on Thursdays would give her four free nights during the week. When Thursday arrived, Kaylin sat down at her desk to begin her homework but heard the TV in the next room announce her favorite movie. She headed in with her mom and watched the entire two-hour movie which ended at 11:00 P.M. What prediction can you make based on this passage?

• Kaylin will have to pull an all-nighter to get her work done.

• Kaylin sailed through the work in a few minutes.

• Kaylin will find her experiment worked out well.

To make an inference you take what you know, and what the author tells you to….

• come up with something the author doesn't tell you.

• know the wrong answer.

• not think about the story at all.

• stop reading.

What strategy do you use to predict what will happen?

• Eenie-Meenie-Minee-Mo

• Close your eyes and point to an answer

• Inferencing

• Luck

Which Reading Strategy allows you to find clues to make theories about what is happening now or what will happen later in the text?

• Making Connections

• Visualizing

• Evaluating

• Questioning and/or Clarifying

• Inferring and/or Predicting

To use clues in text to decide what the text will be about, or what will happen next

• predict

• main idea

• evaluate

• infer

To find a word that’s new & predict the meaning of the word using clues from the words around it

• questioning

• visualizing

• contextual clues

• process of elimination