Lesson Plan: Predictions

Subject: English Language Arts

Theme: Reading Comprehension

Date: November 21st

Time: 9:05am-10:05am
Duration: 60 minutes

Tanya Iannotti
Cycle Level: Cycle 2- Grade 3

By the end of this lesson, the students will be able to:

Group Size

27 students

Better understand how to make a prediction

Understand that predictions can be made using various
mediums (stories, photos, videos)
Understand that predictions help us understand what we
are reading/looking at (helps with our comprehension)
Translate this knowledge to reading comprehension

Materials

PowerPoint Presentation
Photo prediction cue cards with writing space (27)
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh3RZL6dmM (play
0-37 seconds)

Subject Specific Competency:

Competency 1: To read and listen to literary, popular information-based texts.
Students will be required to read and interpret short passages as well as predict
what could happen next.
Competency 3: To represent his/her literacy in different media.
Student will interpret images and predict what could happen next. They will write
their answers down.

Cross Curricular Competencies:

Competency 1: To use information
Students will use the information that is given to them either in the text or the image.
Competency 3: To exercise critical judgment
Interpreting what is occurring in the text or image.
Competency 4: To use creativity
When coming up with what will happen next.
Competency 9: To communicate appropriately
Students will present their ideas.

Teacher Competencies:
Competency 3: To develop teaching/learning situations that are appropriate to the students concerned and
the subject content with a view to developing the competencies targeted in the program of studies.

Competency to improve on:

Competency 6: To plan, organize, and supervise a class in such a way as to promote students learning and
social development.

Time
Lesson
9:05am As soon at the group E33 (French homeroom) is settled in and quiet, I will begin the
lesson. Tell students to put their homework pouches on the floor and leave their pencil
cases on the desk.
Begin by showing the PowerPoint presentation. Review what a prediction is for reading
comprehension (this topic was briefly introduced prior).
A prediction is a good guess about what will happen next.
Review how we can make a prediction and what questions we can ask.
What might happen next?
What is someone likely to do or feel?
Lastly, review what is a prediction made up of. I will stress that the students experiences
play a big part in predicting. The students should be able to relate this images or text to
real life.
Story clues + my experiences = prediction
Next I will show an example of how we can predict from a text. This is modeling what the
students will have to do later on during the class. After the text, I will model how to
interpret an image and predict what will happen next. Because we are currently working
on a superhero theme, I have chosen a superhero image. Possible predictions could include
(write these on board):
I predict that Spider-Man is on his way to save someone.
I predict that Spider-Man will spin a web.
Lastly, I will show the students a short video of a current world event. This will show
students that we can predict what will happen next in a video as well. My goal is to have
the students transfer their learning skills to various relevant scenarios that they experience
in everyday life.
9:15am Now that Ive reminded the students what predictions are and how we can find them, I
will tell them that they will be making their own prediction using images. I will explain to
them that every student will receive a different image and will be required to interpret the
image and predict what will happen next. Students should begin their sentence with I
predict They should write as many creative predictions as they can using prior
knowledge and clues from the image. Tell students that they will share their favorite
prediction with the class. They will have 5 minutes to write as many as they can (I am
anticipating that they will write anywhere from 1-5).
I will ask the helpers to hand out the images. Students should write their names when they
receive the paper. During the time the students are writing I will circulate and check on the
students as well as answer any questions. When I see the students have a few predictions
written down, I will advise the class that they have one minute left to finish their last
though.

9:20am I will tell the students that we will be sharing our images and favorite predictions with the
class. I will ask the students to quietly, with no talking, bring just their stencil with them
and come sit in a circle on the floor in front of the class. I will guide the discussion, but let
the kids do most of the talking. Each student will have a chance to talk. My goal with this
part of the activity is to expose the children to as many scenarios as possible and show
them that it is possible to interpret what is happening and predict what is going to happen
next. Also, to allow an opportunity for the children to practice their oral presentation
skills. Each child will briefly explain what is going on in the image, and then read their
favorite prediction out loud.
9:45am Once this activity is over, I will tell the students to place their prediction papers in the
mailbox and ask the girls to go in their number box and take out their reading
comprehension book. I will ask the boys to return to their seats. Once the girls are seated
back at their desk with their workbook, I will challenge the boys to get their books quieter
than the girls. Also, I will remind them to line up.
Their next task for the time remaining will be to finish up the reading comprehension
exercises in their workbook (that were explained to them a few days ago). I will write the
page numbers on the board in order to avoid any confusion from the children.
Once they are finished, they can bring their book to the front table and move on to a
prepared fast finisher.
10:05

End the lesson. Students will continue working in their workbooks or fast finisher into the
next period.
Adaptions/special considerations: By giving children the flexibility to write a different
number of predictions, I am giving the opportunity to every child to be successful whether
they are weaker or stronger in writing.
I will circulate the class while the children are writing their predictions and check on the
students who have difficulty writing more often. I will make sure to recognize any errors
in the their written work.
For the children who struggle more with reading comprehension, I will read the short texts
to them while the class is working in their workbooks.
Reflection: Overall I feel this lesson was successful. The children enjoyed how the
superhero theme was incorporated into this lesson and they had many predictions about
what Spider-Man would do next although I had to emphasize several times that a
prediction is not what is happening in the picture, but what will happen next. Once I felt
they understood the concept, we moved on to the next activity, which was predicting
using a picture. Children were on task the whole time. When it came to the presentations
however, the images were too small for all of the students to see. When I did this lesson
with the other grade 3 class, I displayed the coloured pictures on the SMARTboard to
ensure the whole class could see. This worked much better.