Georgia 11.P.EICC.3.e
The Standard
Make and track predictions about the events and information likely to come next. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Engagement & Intention for Comprehension & Composition
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students pause before and during reading to anticipate the next event, claim, or piece of information. They use text clues, record their thinking, and update it as they read.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students make specific, reasonable predictions using details, wording, genre, and text structure. They track each prediction and explain why they confirmed, rejected, or revised it.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat predictions as guesses based on preference rather than textual evidence. They may avoid revising a prediction, or assume prediction only applies to fiction.
How to Assess It
- Give students the opening of an unfamiliar editorial and ask them to predict the next claim, cite two clues, then revise after reading further.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a short story into sections, then have pairs record an evidence-based prediction before receiving each new section.
Pause before an article's final paragraph and ask, "What will the author say next, and which two clues support your prediction?"
Play Prediction Points, awarding one point for a plausible prediction and another for accurately explaining how later text changed it.
Read a news headline and lead, predict the details the full report will include, then compare predictions with the published article.
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