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It Doesn't Have to End That Way: Using Prediction Strategies with Literature

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A lesson plan for Grades 1–2 English Language Arts

Provider: IRA/NCTE

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1–2
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IRA/NCTE

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This lesson from ReadWriteThink enhances story time by encouraging students to reflect on and respond to literature. They attempt to predict the way in which they think the story will end and create an illustration that reflects their predictions. This lesson challenges students to develop an ending that connects to previously given information.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.05: Predict and explain what will happen next in stories.
    • Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).

Grade 2

  • Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
    • Objective 2.04: Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).