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Using the Pictures to Predict What Happens

  • Grade 1
  • English Language Arts
  • 46 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-EN-04

A story page that says only "Hello!" gives no hint of what happens next, until the picture shows a snowman waving hello to the sun, and two clues are counted one at a time: the warm sun and water dripping off the snowman. Using those clues, we predict that the snowman will melt, turn the page to a puddle that says "Goodbye!" to check that we were right, and end on the recap "Pictures help us predict what happens next."

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Here is a page from a story.

Let's read the words on the page. Hello!

Transcript

What the lesson says

Here is a page from a story.

Let's read the words on the page. Hello!

What will happen next in the story? The words do not tell us.

To predict means to guess what will happen next.

Let's look at the picture. A snowman says hello to the sun.

Clue one: the sun is warm and bright.

Clue two: water drips off the snowman.

So I predict the snowman will melt.

Let's turn the page and check.

Goodbye! The snowman melted. We were right!

Pictures help us predict what happens next.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

English Language Arts, Strategies and processes: reading strategiesBC1-EN-04

Next: Word Families: Change the First Letter, Read a New Word

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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