Vol. 4 Issue 10 – Video: Strategies for Teaching Reading: Making Predictions

Coaching elementary readers to use the reading strategy of making predictions based upon a passage of text. This teacher is using the instructional model presented in Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study for Teaching Reading program. The teacher explains to the students how to focus on details presented in the narrative to make predictions using post-it notes and determine what is likey to happen to characters next.