Instructional Strategies

• Mark key points in the story at which the students will write predictions.

• Give prediction log papers to the students.

  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Students preview the story and write their predictions at the designated points.

  • After reading each section, students determine if their predictions were correct.

  • Using their prediction logs and with the teacher's guidance, the students:

    • Discuss their predictions

    • Explain why they made the predictions

    • Discuss how they constructed meaning through the story

• Students discuss how their personal experiences influenced their understanding of the story.

• Students discuss predictions that were not confirmed and what they missed in reading that led them to the wrong conclusions.

• Students write their reactions or their responses to the story and the discussion

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