It seems as if I've missed a couple of chapters of this.
For our meeting this week, we've been asked to read chapter 4, all about predicting.
For the most part, this is all stuff that I've seen before, though, like much of this book, it talks about explicitly teaching predicting. Up until this point, I've discussed what a prediction is with my children, and to some extent, some of them have remembered what it means - though after having blitzed it for 3-4 weeks last term, I'm finding most have forgotten it now. The chapter talked about discussing why we predict, but also and more importantly, how to predict. It talked about discussing which clues lead children to believe what they think will happen. I.e. ask: "Why do you think that?" This may be a bit advanced for some of my students, but it can't hurt to plant the seeds in their heads.
One activity that I liked was giving the children 6 statements about what happens in the book. 3 each are true and false and the children have to discuss and decide which ones are true.
The book also discussed taking some time for children to reflect on how they are predicting, at the end. I've occasionally made some time to revisit predictions, but I think I need to make a bigger effort to do so.
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