PREDICTING
STRATEGY
PARENT USES VISUAL AND ORAL PREDICTION CUES TO ENCOURAGE LANGUAGE AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
- Select books that are of high interest to your child.
- Always read the book first before reading it to your child.
- Look for prediction opportunities:
>What do you think will happen next?
>What might be hidden under the flap?
>What clues are the words giving us?
- Look for books that offer picture clues, word clues and those that develop critical thinking skills.
- Build a new ending to a story by asking your child to predict what might happen after you have read the last page. (ie: “What do you think the dogs will do now?”)
- Allow children to make silly predictions.
- Accept all answers and praise all the great ideas your child comes up with. Remember, it is not about your child being right or wrong but just to encourage thinking.
- Prediction and questioning are strategies that often can be used together.
SUGGESTED BOOKS FOR PREDICTION
Is your Mama a Llama?” By Deborah Guarino Lloyd
Look! Look! Look! By Tana Hoban
Rosie’s Walk. By Pat Hutchins
If You Give a Moose a Muffin. By Laura Joffe Numeropff
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. By Laura Joffe Numeroff
Bark George. By Jule Feiffer
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