Fun activities to teach K students to predict story outcomes.

📚 Objectives

• 🎯 Students will be able to predict story outcomes based on textual clues.
• 🗣️ Students will actively participate in group discussions about possible story endings.
• 🧠 Students will improve their comprehension skills through prediction activities.

🖍️ Materials

• 📖 A variety of picture books suitable for kindergarteners.
• 📝 Prediction worksheets with space for drawing or writing.
• 🌈 Crayons, markers, and colored pencils.
• ✂️ Optional: Sentence strips and construction paper for creating prediction charts.

👋 Warm-up (5 mins)

• 🗣️ Begin by asking students what they think the word "predict" means.
• ❓ Discuss how we make predictions in our daily lives (e.g., predicting what the weather will be like).
• 📖 Read a very short story and pause before the ending. Ask students what they think will happen next.

📖 Main Instruction (20 mins)

• 📖 Read a picture book aloud, pausing at key moments to ask students to predict what might happen next.
• 🤝 Use prompts like, "What do you think the character will do?" or "How might the story end?"
• ✍️ After each prediction, encourage students to explain their reasoning.
• 🎨 Use prediction worksheets where students can draw or write their predictions.
• 🎭 Act out scenes and ask for predictions based on the character's actions.

🎲 Activity Ideas

• 🖼️ Picture Walk Predictions: 🏞️ Before reading, do a picture walk and have students predict the story based on the illustrations.
• 🛑 Stop and Predict: 🚦 Pause at different points in the story and have students write or draw what they think will happen next.
• 🎭 Acting Out Predictions: 🎬 Have students act out possible endings based on their predictions.
• ❓ "What If" Scenarios: 💡 Present "What if...?" scenarios related to the story and ask students to predict the consequences.

✅ Assessment

• 📝 Observe student participation during discussions.
• 🎨 Review prediction worksheets for understanding of the story and ability to predict outcomes.
• 🗣️ Ask individual students to explain their predictions and reasoning.