I've been doing some reading trying to give my class better clarification: "When students make a prediction, they are making an educated guess on what will happen next in a story based on what has happened in the text, their knowledge about the author and their own personal schemata.
Do you have any suggestions,a better explanation, that may help clear things up for my students. I have a lot of trouble conveying the difference between predicting and making inferences. Looking at your anchor chart/poster I started visualizing how I can modify it to go with what my students and I have already discussed/learned in class. Reading Intervention for 4th and 5th Grade Students Reading at 2nd/3rd Grade Levels: Nonfiction Skills Reading Intervention for 4th and 5th Grade Students Reading at 2nd/3rd Grade Levels: Fiction Skills Holding Students Accountable for Independent Reading
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Sentence Stems for Reading Strategies: FREE Posters Helping Struggling Readers in Upper Elementary More Blog Posts and Resources to Support Your ReadersĬlick on the links below to read more blog posts or see recommended resources to support your readers (especially struggling readers) further.ĭecoding Strategies for 4th and 5th Graders
Read more about some of those more advanced reading strategies on this post. More Advanced Reading StrategiesĪfter the students are comfortable and confident with the particular reading strategies shared on this post, they are ready to tackle more advanced thinking skills. Since the students have been used to regularly sharing their thoughts using complete sentences, this is a natural transition for them and simply another way for them to share their reading thoughts with others. We also begin sharing our specific thoughts in reader’s response letters. We do this during guided reading using simple reading strategy organizers like the ones shared on this post.
After a few days or weeks (it depends on the needs of the particular students) of coding our thinking and getting comfortable using the reading strategies regularly (and varying them depending on the context of the book being read), we are ready to being writing our thoughts and sharing them.