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Comparing Your Predictions

What are Comparing Predictions?

Effective readers make guesses or predictions as they are reading and change these predictions as they continue to read and find more clues. the next step is to make comparisons among these predictions.

How will using Comparing Predictions help me read better?

Sometimes you are pleased and your predictions come true in the story. Sometimes you are surprised when the author writes something different than what you predicted. both things happen to effective readers. We are not always correct in making predictions. And that's just fine! Making predictions keeps your brain active and involved with the story and that is a skill or a strong reader.

Here is the next step! You’re going to practice making comparisons.

How could I use Comparing Predictions in a class?

• First, use your predicting skills to make a smart guess about what will happen in the story.
• Next, enjoy reading the story.
• Now, retell the story. You can do this by drawing a picture, making a list, writing it out, or retelling the story aloud to another person.
• Finally, think about how your predictions MATCH to the real story. Here are some questions to ask yourself.

Let’s figure out how your predictions are the same as the story and how they are different from the story. This is called making a comparison and requires some more detective thinking.

Questions to ask

Was your prediction the same? How was it the same or similar? How was it different? What clues led to your prediction? How would you change the story?

Here are some graphic organizers to help you. Remember a graphic organizer is a way to put information on paper and look at in a type of picture. You might want to draw one of these organizers on a large piece of paper. See – you are not only a detective, you’re an artist too! All that, and an effective reader!

VENN DIAGRAM

In a Venn Diagram, the section where the circles overlap includes the items that are the same. Click here for more details and instructions about Venn Diagrams.

COMPARISON TABLE

You can compare your predictions to the story using this table format.

Story Title: Chicken Sunday

PREDICTION		STORY
SAME
They tried to make money by selling something in a store.
DIFFERENT
2 kids Mom and Dad Kid’s cooked Made a sundae Bought nintendo		3 kids Grandmother No cooking by kids Painted eggs Mr. K. gave kids a hat

PREDICTION		STORY
SAME
DIFFERENT