Prediction Activities in Pre-reading Stage:Theory 01

Prediction is one of the reading skills. How to do prediction? Here are different activities to predict what the text or the story is about.

Activity 1:

Write the title of the text or story, and to predict what it could be about.

Activity 2:

Write the beginning and the ending of the story on the board, and ask the learners to guess what happens in the middle.

Activity 3:

Write the topic on the board and ask the learners to brainstorm words that are connected with the subject.

Activity 4:

Ask learners to talk about the subject in connection with their own lives.

Activity 5:

Write the topic on the board and ask learners to talk about what they already know about the subject of the text.

Activity 6:

Show learners objects that appear in the text, and ask them to guess what the text or story is about.

Activity 7:

Write words from the text or show learners pictures that connect to the text, and ask them why they may be important.

Activity 8:

Show learners the illustrations from a story book, and ask them to guess what happens.

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