Making Predictions in Nonfiction Text

This week we are continuing our unit on nonfiction. Today we talked about the benefits of a picture walk when reading a nonfiction text. Everyone already knew that when you take a picture walk in a fiction book you are predicting what you think will happen in the story. Today we learned that when you take a picture walk in a nonfiction book you are predicting what you think you will learn about. We talked about how this can help you as a reader to gain meaning from the text when you start to read.

As a class, we looked through a nonfiction book about elephants and wrote down our predictions for each picture. It was neat to see the different ideas each student had. We talked about how as long as you make an educated guess, there is not just one right answer.

Next, students were paired up and had to make predictions about a different nonfiction book together. They did an awesome job working in pairs and discussing what they thought they would learn about!

Tomorrow we are going to go back and read the text to try to confirm our predictions!