Contributor: Marlene Vogel. Lesson ID: 10182
Look at the title of this lesson. Can you guess what the lesson is about? Taking a good guess using clues is called predicting. Read about a cookie and perform a fun experiment to practice predicting!
Many times, the title and illustrations on the book's cover tell us a lot about a story. Usually, you can guess, or predict, what the book is about by its cover.
Try your hand at predicting what will happen next!
Today, you will begin reading a story titled, The Giant Cookie, by Clark Ness.
Before you begin, let's talk about something you should do before you read ANY story. It's called predicting.
Predicting is a fancy word for guessing. Predicting is fun to do and it helps you want to read the story to the end, to see if you were right! That is called confirming.
When you go to make a prediction about a story, you have a couple clues you can use to help you:
Take a moment to practice your prediction skills:
Now that we know what predicting is and where to get the clues to help us make our prediction, take a look at the cover of your book.
The book in this lesson is a chapter book. A chapter book is a story that is broken into several chapters, or parts. Sometimes, the author will do this if a story is a long one. By putting the story into chapters, authors make it easier for readers to understand and remember the story.
Don't expect to finish reading the story today. After you read each chapter, check back with your prediction to see if you guessed correctly!
Once you have finished reading the story, check back for the last time with your prediction. How did you do? Did you guess correctly?
Draw a picture of the actual end of the story and post it somewhere in your learning space next to your prediction picture. Discuss with your parent or teacher about how you would change the end of the story to match your prediction.
When you are done, move on to the Got It? section to perform a scientific experiment!